Research Article
Implication of Microsatellite Instability Pathway in Outcome of Colon Cancer in Moroccan Population
Table 1
Clinicopathological features of 330 patients.
| Variables | (%) |
| Age (mean) | | <50 | 123 (37.3%) | >50 | 207 (62.7%) | Sex | | Female | 156 (47.3%) | Male | 174 (52.7%) | Tumor site | | Right colon | 76 (23.0%) | Left colon | 254 (77.0%) | Histologic subtype | | Adenocarcinoma | 278 (84.2%) | Mucinous adenocarcinoma | 29 (8.8%) | Others | 23 (7%) | Histologic grade | | Well | 173 (52.4%) | Moderate | 128 (38.8%) | Poor | 28 (8.5%) | Unknown | 1 (0.3%) | Perineural invasion | | Yes | 27 (8.2%) | No | 272 (82.4%) | Unknown | 31 (9.4%) | Vascular invasion | | Yes | 39 (11.8%) | No | 291 (88.2%) | Disease stage | | I | 28 (8.5%) | II | 161 (48.4%) | III | 73 (22.1%) | IV | 68 (20.6%) | MSI status | | MSS | 293 (88.8%) | MSI | 37 (11.2%) |
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: number of cases; SD: standard deviation; MSS: microsatellite stable; MSI: microsatellite instability. |