Supplementary Table 5.

The clinical features of all enrolled CRC patients.

	Male (N=224)	Female (N=200)
Age (years)	67.4 (31–90)	65.6 (34–90)
Alive
Yes	170	155
No	51	44
Recurrence
Yes	145	30
No	49	139
Pathologic stage
I	39	32
II	85	76
III	61	61
IV	33	27
Pathologic T stage
T1	4	8
T2	41	31
T3	152	139
T4	27	22

Four patients lacked data on whether they were still alive, 61 patients lacked data on whether there was recurrence, and 10 patients lacked the data on pathologic stage.