Table 1.

Clinicopathologic characteristics in F. nucleatum-low vs. F. nucleatum-high colorectal cancers

Characteristics	F. nucleatum.		p-valuea
	Low (n=33)	High (n=61)
Gender			0.551
Female	16	29
Male	17	32
Age	59.94	61.20	0.460
(Range )	25-81	23-86
Location			0.031*
Proximal	9	31
Distal	24	30
Tumor size			0.423
d<4cm	8	19	0.002*
4≤d<8cm	22	40
d≥8cm	3	2
AJCC stage
Ⅰ-Ⅱ	18	14
Ⅲ-Ⅳ	15	47
Histologic grade			0.065
Well differentiated	6	3
Moderately differentiated	24	46
Poorly differentiated	3	12
Pathological type			0.709
eminence type	18	29
ulcer type	11	21
Infiltrating type	4	11
Depth of invasion			0.023*
T1	2	2
T2	10	5
T3	20	47
T4	1	7
Lymph node metastasis			0.005*
N0	19	16
N1	9	19
N2	5	26
Distant metastasis			0.037*
M0	32	50
M1	1	11

^a Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test, *P < 0.05; AJCC, American Joint Committee On Cancer.