Table 1.

Clinicopathological features of the cohort

	Colorectal cancer patients	Non‐cancer controls
	n = 99	n = 99
Gender, n (%)
Male	51	49
Female	48	50
Age (years)
Mean	63	56
Median	65	57
Range (age)	35–87	19–84
> 55	77	53
< 55	22	46
Tumor site
Colon	95
Rectum	4
Tumor (T) stage
T1/PT1	2
T2/PT2	18
T3/PT3	59
T4/PT4	20
Node (N) stage
N0	57
N1	19
N2	23
Metastasis (M) stage
M0	47
M1	19
Mx	33
Differentiation
Well	16
Moderately	70
Poorly	13