Table 3.

Comparison of patient and tumor characteristics between success and failure in gene profiling.

Age, years	Success (n = 38)	Failure (n = 10)	P value
Median	52	61	0.425
Gender
Male	19	5	0.616
Female	19	6
Tumor location			0.199
Liver	17	3	0.684
Non-liver	21	7
Tumor size, mm
Median	36	23	0.088
<30 mm	14	5	0.270
≥30 mm	24	5
Type of needle
Automatic	23	6	0.804
Semi-automatic	15	4
Number of cores
Median	3	3	0.171
Age of specimen, days
Median	16	249	0.357