Table 4.

The association of demographics and clinicopathologic characteristics with different scores (# means the p value compared T3 with T4)

Variables	0	1	2	3	4	p-value
	(N=248)	(N=227)	(N=167)	(N=63)	(N=30)
Gender						0.370
Male	155	136	100	33	22
Female	93	91	67	30	8
Age						0.184
<65	119	110	67	22	14
≥65	129	117	100	41	16
Stage						0.000
II	163	148	75	29	13
III	85	79	92	34	17
T stage						0.042
T1+T2	8	5	6	0	0
T3	66	54	28	12	3	0.054#
T4	174	168	133	51	27
N stage						0.000
N0	163	148	75	29	13
N1	45	51	52	24	4
N2	40	28	40	10	13
Location						0.002
Right colon	82	68	43	30	12
Left colon	66	64	68	21	7
Rectum	100	95	56	12	11
Pathology type						0.001
Adenocarcinoma	239	218	153	56	23
Other	9	9	14	7	7
Differentiation						0.020
Moderate and well	152	149	89	29	16
Poor	96	78	78	34	14
Lymphatic invasion						0.001
Yes	131	126	116	44	22
No	177	101	51	19	8
Vascular invasion						0.020
Yes	27	28	24	15	8
No	221	199	143	48	22
Perineural invasion						0.718
Yes	236	216	157	62	29
No	12	11	10	1	1
Metastasis and recurrence						0.000
Yes	52	65	59	28	18
No	196	162	108	35	12
Survival status						0.000
Alive	204	157	101	29	9
Dead	44	70	66	34	21