Association between Oral Chinese Herbal Medicine and Recurrence and Metastasis in Patients with Stages II and III Colorectal Cancer: A Cohort Study in China

Table 2

Baseline data of patients without CRC R&M within 5 years of surgery compared with the worst patients.

	Patients without CRC R&M within 5 years of surgery (n = 113)	Worst patients (n = 14)	value
Age at diagnosis, years			0.297
18–64	65 (57.5%)	6 (42.9%)
＞64	48 (42.5%)	8 (57.1%)
Gender			0.091
Female	47 (41.6%)	2 (14.3%)
Male	66 (58.4%)	12 (85.7%)
Tumor site			0.876
Colon	59 (52.2%)	7 (50.0%)
Rectum	54 (47.8%)	7 (50.0%)
TNM stage			0.440
Stage II	49 (43.4%)	4 (28.6%)
Stage III	64 (56.6%)	10 (71.4%)
Adjuvant chemotherapy
Yes	75 (66.4%)	10 (71.4%)	0.938
No	38 (33.6%)	4 (28.6%)
Syndrome patterns
Pi (spleen) qi deficiency	59 (52.3%)	6 (42.9%)	0.509
Shen (kidney) yin deficiency	11 (9.7%)	0	0.609
Pi (spleen) and Shen (kidney) deficiency	30 (26.5%)	8 (57.1%)	0.018
Non-Pi (spleen) and Shen (kidney) deficiency	13 (11.5%)	0	0.358