Clinicopathological Factors Influencing Lymph Node Yield in Colorectal Cancer: A Retrospective Study

Table 2

Clinicopathological data of 675 surgically treated rectal cancer patients without neoadjuvant therapy.

		%
Gender
Males	426	63.1
Females	249	36.9
Age
<65	340	50.4
≥65	335	49.6
pT
T1	94	13.9
T2	150	22.2
T3	379	56.1
T4	52	7.7
Harvested LN
<12	250	37
≥12	425	63
Mean LN (SD)
15.33 (9.64)	—	—

LNs: lymph nodes; pT: pathological tumor stage.