Research Article
[Retracted] The Number of Intraoperative Intestinal Venous Circulating Tumor Cells Is a Prognostic Factor for Colorectal Cancer Patients
Table 1
The association between IVB CTC counts and patient clinicopathological findings.
| Variations | N | Positive/negative | CTCs-positive (%) | χ2 | P-value |
| Gender | | | | 1.446 | 0.229 | Male | 108 | 87/21 | 80.56 | | | Female | 54 | 39/15 | 72.22 | | |
| Age/years | | | | 0.177 | 0.674 | ≤60 | 77 | 61/16 | 79.22 | | | >60 | 85 | 65/20 | 76.47 | | |
| Tumor location | | | | 0.604 | 0.739 | Left colon | 41 | 32/9 | 78.04 | | | Right colon | 61 | 37/14 | 52.46 | | | Rectum | 60 | 47/13 | 78.33 | | |
| Histologic differentiated | | | | 1.990 | 0.370 | Poorly | 51 | 41/10 | 80.39 | | | Moderately | 107 | 83/24 | 77.57 | | | Well | 4 | 2/2 | 50.00 | | |
| Diameter/cm | | | | 2.105 | 0.147 | ≤4.0 | 57 | 48/9 | 84.21 | | | >4.0 | 105 | 78/27 | 74.29 | | |
| Invasion depth | | | | 2.066 | 0.151 | T1-T2 | 42 | 36/6 | 85.71 | | | T3-T4 | 120 | 90/30 | 75.00 | | |
| Lymph node metastasis | | | | 0.231 | 0.630 | Negative | 150 | 116/34 | 77.33 | | | Positive | 12 | 10/2 | 83.33 | | |
| TNM staging | | | | 12.091 | 0.002 | I | 37 | 31/6 | 83.78 | | | II | 87 | 59/28 | 67.82 | | | III | 38 | 36/2 | 94.74 | | |
| AFP (ng/ml) | | | | 1.070 | 0.301 | ≤7.0 | 110 | 83/27 | 75.45 | | | >7.0 | 52 | 43/9 | 82.69 | | |
| CEA (ng/ml) | | | | 0.458 | 0.498 | ≤5.2 | 91 | 69/22 | 75.82 | | | >5.2 | 71 | 57/14 | 80.28 | | |
| CA19-9 (U/ml) | | | | 0.007 | 0.933 | ≤27 | 71 | 55/16 | 77.46 | | | >27 | 91 | 71/20 | 78.02 | | |
| CA-125 (U/ml) | | | | 50.968 | 0.000 | ≤35 | 58 | 27/31 | 46.55 | | | >35 | 104 | 99/5 | 95.19 | | | >35 | 104 | 99/5 | 95.19 | | | CA72-4 (U/ml) | | | | 0.270 | 0.604 | ≤6.9 | 44 | 33/11 | 75.00 | | | >6.9 | 118 | 93/25 | 78.81 | | |
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CTCs, circulating tumor cells; AFP, alpha-fetoprotein; CEA, carcinoembryonic antigen; CA19-9, glycoprotein antigen 199; CA-125, glycoprotein antigen 125; CA72-4, glycoprotein antigen 72-4.
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