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. 2020 Dec 31;2(6):E1. doi: 10.35772/ghm.2020.E1

CORRIGENDUM

PMCID: PMC7780283  PMID: 33409422

It has come to the authors' attention that their article entitled "Impact of sex and histology on the therapeutic effects of fluoropyrimidines and oxaliplatin plus bevacizumab for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer in the SOFT trial" (Global Health & Medicine. 2020; 2(4):240-246. DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2020.01050) included an error in Table 1. The corrected detailed is published with this corrigendum for your reading.

Table 1. Baseline characteristics of male and female patients.

Items SOX/Bev (n = 250)
P FOLFOX/Bev (n = 249)
P
Male (n = 167) Female (n = 83) Male (n = 156) Female (n = 93)
n % n % n % n %
Age
    < 70 120 71.9 67 80.7 0.164 116 74.4 69 74.2 1.000
    ≥ 70 47 28.1 16 19.3 40 25.6 24 25.8
Primary lesion
    Colon 80 47.9 48 57.8 0.422 76 48.7 47 50.5 0.225
    Rectosigmoid 30 18.0 14 16.9 21 13.5 19 20.4
    Rectum 55 32.9 20 24.1 59 37.8 27 29.0
    Others 2 1.2 1 1.2 0 0
Differentiation assessed by histology
    Well or moderate 148 88.6 67 80.7 0.223 135 86.5 77 82.8 0.331
    Poorly 6 3.6 5 6.0 4 2.6 6 6.5
    Other 13 7.8 11 13.3 17 10.9 10 10.8
Adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer
    No 142 85.0 72 86.7 0.849 128 82.0 83 89.2 0.147
    Yes 25 15.0 11 13.3 28 18.0 10 10.8
Target lesion
    No 12 7.2 9 10.8 0.340 11 7.0 11 11.8 0.249
    Yes 155 92.8 74 89.2 145 93.0 82 88.2
Liver metastases
    No 45 26.9 38 45.8 0.004 53 34.0 34 36.6 0.683
    Yes 122 73.1 45 54.2 103 66.0 59 63.4
Lung metastases
    No 93 55.7 50 60.2 0.501 87 55.8 47 50.5 0.434
    Yes 74 44.3 33 39.8 69 44.2 46 49.5
Lymph node metastases
    No 123 73.7 66 79.5 0.350 119 76.3 67 72.0 0.456
    Yes 44 26.3 17 20.5 37 23.7 26 28.0
Other metastases
    No 135 80.8 53 63.9 0.005 136 87.2 70 75.3 0.024
    Yes 32 19.2 30 36.1 20 12.8 23 24.7
Metastatic organs
    1 73 43.7 38 45.8 0.788 83 53.2 44 47.3 0.432
    ≥ 2 94 56.3 45 54.2 73 46.8 49 52.7

P: Fisher's exact test. Bev, bevacizumab; FOLFOX, 5-FU/l-leucovorin plus oxaliplatin; SOX, S-1 plus oxaliplatin.


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