Table 1.
Patient characteristics and number of circulating tumor cells (CTC) positive patients (results by ScreenCell®) at the three time-points.
| Variables | n | CTC Positive (n) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TP1 | TP2 | TP3 | ||
| All | 20 | 6 | 9 | 8 |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Female | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 |
| Resection | ||||
| Yes | 15 | |||
| No | 4 | |||
| unknown | 1 | |||
| T-Stage | ||||
| ypT0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| ypT1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| ypT2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| ypT3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| ypT4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Missing | 5 | |||
| N-Stage | ||||
| ypN0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| ypN1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| ypN2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ypN3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Missing | 5 | |||
| Regression status | ||||
| complete | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| subtotal | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| partial | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| minimal | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |