Table 1.
Demographic and pathological data on the 47 patients included in the ex vivo study
| Demographic | Number |
|---|---|
| Mean age (range) | 70 (36–87) |
| Gender (M:F) | 25:22 |
| Ethnicity | |
| Caucasian | 32 |
| African | 5 |
| Asian | 4 |
| Unknown/other | 6 |
| Pathology of sampled tissue | Number |
|---|---|
| Adenocarcinoma | 30 |
| Adenoma | 12 |
| Normal mucosa | 35 |
| Histology of carcinomaa | Number |
|---|---|
| Tumour stage | |
| T1/2 | 12 |
| T3/4 | 17 |
| Nodal stage | |
| N0 | 18 |
| N1/2 | 11 |
| Use of neoadjuvant therapy | |
| Absent | 26 |
| Present | 3 |
aTwenty-nine of the 30 tumour patients underwent radical resection allowing full histological staging