Table I.
Correlation between inflammatory cell infiltration in the invasive front and main mass of primary tumor and anatomoclinical variables of colorectal cancer.
| Inflammatory cell infiltration in the invasive front of tumor | Inflammatory cell infiltration in the center of tumor mass | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | N 160 | R | P-value | R | P-value |
| Age | |||||
| <60 | 40 | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| >60 | 120 | ||||
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 64 | -0.197 | 0.018 | NS | NS |
| Male | 96 | ||||
| Localization | |||||
| Right-side | 20 | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| Transverse | 14 | ||||
| Left-side | 15 | ||||
| Sigmoid | 29 | ||||
| Rectum | 82 | ||||
| Tumor growth | |||||
| Expanding | 133 | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| Infiltrate | 27 | ||||
| Tumor size, cm | |||||
| <2.5 | 27 | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| 2.5–5.0 | 106 | ||||
| >5.0 | 27 | ||||
| TNM stage | |||||
| 1 | 42 | NS | NS | -0.200 | 0.012 |
| 2 | 31 | ||||
| 3 | 69 | ||||
| 4 | 18 | ||||
| Duke stage | |||||
| A | 39 | NS | NS | -0.218 | 0.009 |
| B | 35 | ||||
| C | 69 | ||||
| D | 17 | ||||
| Adenocarcinoma type | |||||
| Partim muc | 30 | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| Nonmuc | 130 | ||||
| Percentage of mucinous component | |||||
| 10–30% | 15 | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| 30–50% | 15 | ||||
| Grade of malignancies | |||||
| 2 | 148 | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| 3 | 12 | ||||
| Preoperative treatment | |||||
| Yes | 53 | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| No | 107 | ||||
| Treatment response | |||||
| SD | 26 | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| PR | 27 | ||||
| pT stage | |||||
| 1 | 3 | NS | NS | -0.175 | 0.036 |
| 2 | 62 | ||||
| 3 | 91 | ||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||
Bold numbers indicate values considered to be statistically significant. Spearman's correlation coefficient test; NS, not statistically significant.