Preoperative Serum Levels of Mesothelin in Patients with Colon Cancer

Table 1

The clinicopathologic features of patients and controls.

Patients		Controls
( = 100)		( = 70)
Age (y)	58.7 ± 3.9	59.9 ± 3.4	<0.05
Gender (M/F)	43/52	31/39
Tumor size
≤3 cm	20
>3 cm	75
TNM stage
TI	21
TII	17
TIII	23
TIV	34
Invasion
T1	20
T2	15
T3	23
T4	37
Lymph node metastasis
N0	32
N1	28
N2	35
Metastasis
Present	70
Absent	21