A First Step to a Biomarker of Curative Surgery in Colorectal Cancer by Liquid Biopsy of Methylated Septin 9 Gene

Table 3

Clinical, tumour stage and localization compared with the results of SEPT9 blood test in preoperative and postoperative samples. M: male; F: female.

Patient	Age	Sex	Tumour stage	Localization	Preoperative SEPT9	Recurrence/persistence	Postoperative SEPT9
1	60	M	T3N1a	Right colon	Positive	No	Negative
2	74	F	T1N2a	Right colon	Positive	Retroperitoneal lymph nodes metastases	Positive
3	75	M	T3N1a	Left and urologic tumour	Positive	No	Negative
4	66	F	T4N2M1b	Sigmoid colon	Positive	Liver metastases	Positive
5	66	M	T3N2M1b	Right colon	Positive	Peritoneal carcinomatosis	Positive
6	73	F	T4N0	Sigmoid colon	Positive	No	Negative
7	73	F	T4N2M1b	Sigmoid colon	Positive	Pulmonary metastases	Positive
8	53	F	T3N0 Lynch syndrome	Right colon	Negative	No	Negative
9	63	F	T3N0	Right colon	Negative	No	Negative
10	72	F	T3N0	Right colon	Positive	No	Negative