Table 1.

Clinicopathologic variables and SCIN expression in 300 CRCs.

Variables	SCIN expression		P-value
	High	Low
Age (years)
=60	172	32	0.507
>60	78	18
Gender
Male	119	23	0.836
Female	131	27
Tumor location
Colon	160	28	0.286
Rectum	90	22
Tumor size
=5 cm	184	37	0.953
>5 cm	66	13
Gross appearance
Ulcerative	190	37	0.764
Exophytic	60	13
Histological type
Adenocarcinoma	220	43	0.695
Mucinous adenocarcinoma	30	7
Tumor differentiation
Well or moderate	80	18	0.582
Poor or other	170	32
Depth of invasion
T1,2	13	36	<0.001
T3,4	237	14
Lymph node metastasis
Absent	107	30	0.026
Present	143	20
CRC and LM
CRC without LM	78	22	0.021a
CRC with SLM	90	10	0.103b
CRC with MLM	82	18	0.480c

a, CRC without LM vs. CRC with SLM P = 0.021.

b, CRC with SLM vs. CRC with MLM P = 0.480.

c, CRC with MLM vs. CRC without LM P = 0.103.