Research Article

A Panel of Cancer Testis Antigens and Clinical Risk Factors to Predict Metastasis in Colorectal Cancer

Table 2

Patients’ clinicopathological data.

Risks factorsTumour tissues
Negative liver
metastases 53 (41)
Positive liver
metastases 47 (36)

Gender
 Male ( )53 (22)41 (15)
 Female ( )47 (19)59 (21)
Age
 >51 ( )53 (22)52 (19)
 <51 ( )47 (19)48 (17)
Tumor size
 <5 ( )44 (18)61 (22)
 ≥5 ( )66 (22)39 (14)
Tumor location
 Colon (32)39 (16)45 (16)
 Rectum (45)61 (25)55 (20)
Depth of tumor invasion* (T factor)
 T1 ( ) 00
 T2 ( )49 (20)14 (5)
 T3 ( )46 (19)72 (26)
 T4 ( )5 (2)14 (5)
Lymph node metastasis* (N factor)
 N0 ( )76 (31)19 (7)
 N1 ( )12 (5)56 (20)
 N2 ( )12 (5)25 (9)

Data are percentage of patients with number in parentheses.
for the comparison primary tumors without CLM versus primary tumors with CLM.