Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of patients with colorectal cancer in the TCGA and GSE39582 database
| Variable | TCGA | GSE39582 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | ||
| Sex | Male | 201 | 55.7 | 213 | 44.9 |
| Female | 160 | 44.3 | 261 | 55.1 | |
| Age | 64 | 31-90 | 67 | 22-97 | |
| T stage | T1/T2 | 68 | 18.8 | 52 | 11.0 |
| T3/T4 | 291 | 80.6 | 418 | 88.2 | |
| TX | 2 | 0.6 | 4 | 0.8 | |
| N stage | N0 | 198 | 54.8 | 283 | 59.7 |
| N1 | 98 | 27.1 | 108 | 22.8 | |
| N2 | 63 | 17.5 | 78 | 16.5 | |
| Nx | 2 | 0.6 | 5 | 1.1 | |
| M stage | M0 | 299 | 82.9 | 474 | 100 |
| M1 | 50 | 13.9 | / | / | |
| Mx | 12 | 3.3 | / | / | |
| Lymphovascular invasion | Negative | 203 | 56.2 | / | / |
| Positive | 112 | 31.0 | / | / | |
| Unknown | 46 | 12.7 | / | / | |