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.
