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. 2018 Jul 10;119(3):323–329. doi: 10.1038/s41416-018-0174-y

Table 3.

Clinicopathological characteristics of validation patients undergoing potentially curative resection of colorectal cancer and cancer-specific survival (n = 801)

Nuclear pERK1/2 Cytoplasmic pERK1/2 Combined nuclear pERK/p38 score Combined cytoplasmic pERK/p38 score
Weak (n = 327) Strong (n = 474) p Weak (n = 379) Strong (n = 422) p Bothweak/one strong (n = 427) Both strong (n = 374) p Both weak/one strong (n = 536) Both strong (n = 265) p
BRAF status
 Wild type 265 (84) 352 (75) 0.003* 306 (83) 331 (75) 0.009* 344 (83) 273 (74) 0.002* 416 (80) 201 (76) 0.228
 Mutant 50 (16) 115 (25) 63 (17) 102 (25) 70 (17) 95 (26) 103 (20) 62 (24)
Mismatch repair status
 Competent 529 (80) 405 (86) 0.01* 302 (81) 362 (86) 0.032* 343 (81) 321 (86) 0.065 439 (83) 225 (85) 0.526
 Deficient 66 (20) 63 (14) 72 (19) 57 (14) 78 (19) 51 (14) 89 (17) 40 (15)
Age
 <65 108 (33) 148 (31) 0.591 125 (33) 131 (31) 0.557 140 (33) 116 (31) 0.592 184 (34) 72 (27) 0.039*
 >65 219 (67) 326 (69) 254 (67) 291 (69) 287 (67) 258 (69) 352 (66) 193 (73)
Serum CRP
 Normal 137 (51) 222 (59) 0.03* 165 (55) 194 (57) 0.595 191 (53) 168 (59) 0.172 256 (56) 103 (54) 0.547
 High 133 (49) 152 (41) 137 (45) 148 (43) 167 (47) 118 (41) 197 (44) 88 (46)
mGPS
 0 138 (51) 224 (59) 0.069 168 (55) 194 (57) 0.776 192 (53) 170 (59) 0.243 259 (57) 103 (54) 0.192
 1 89 (33) 97 (26) 95 (31) 91 (26) 112 (31) 74 (26) 135 (29) 51 (27)
 2 45 (16) 55 (15) 42 (14) 58 (17) 57 (16) 43 (15) 63 (14) 37 (19)
Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes
 Absent 242 (76) 368 (79) 0.297 293 (79) 317 (77) 0.527 313 (76) 297 (81) 0.061 398 (76) 212 (82) 0.078
 Present 75 (24) 95 (21) 77 (21) 93 (23) 101 (24) 69 (19) 123 (24) 47 (18)
Klintrup–Makinen grade
 Weak 217 (68) 317 (68) 0.966 257 (69) 277 (67) 0.514 276 (66) 258 (70) 0.31 362 (69) 172 (66) 0.451
 Strong 102 (32) 150 (32) 115 (31) 137 (33) 140 (34) 112 (30) 164 (31) 88 (34)
TNM stage
 1 45 (14) 65 (14) 0.567 51 (14) 59 (14) 0.152 61 (14) 49 (13) 0.996 68 (13) 42 (16) 0.052
 2 152 (46) 234 (49) 171 (45) 215 (51) 201 (47) 185 (50) 252 (47) 134 (51)
 3 130 (40) 175 (37) 157 (41) 148 (35) 165 (39) 140 (37) 216 (40) 89 (33)
Venous invasion
 Absent 218 (67) 318 (67) 0.901 254 (67) 282 (67) 0.954 281 (66) 255 (68) 0.476 353 (66) 183 (69) 0.364
 Present 109 (33) 156 (33) 125 (33) 140 (33) 146 (34) 119 (32) 183 (34) 82 931)
Proliferation Index
 Low 146 (45) 213 (45) 0.943 169 (45) 190 (46) 0.835 197 (47) 162 (44) 0.412 235 (44) 124 (47) 0.483
 High 178 (55) 259 (55) 208 (55) 227 (54) 226 (53) 209 (56) 295 (56) 140 (53)

*Significant difference p < 0.05