Elevated Serum Levels of CCL23 Are Associated with Poor Outcome after Resection of Biliary Tract Cancer

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	Patient cohort
BTC patients
Gender [%]
Male-female	55.1-44.9
Age [years, median, and range]	68 [37-84]
BMI [kg/m^2, median, and range]	25.75 [18.83-46.36]
Anatomic location of BTC [%]
Intrahepatic	42.0
Klatskin	40.3
Distal	10.1
Gallbladder	7.6
Staging [%]
T1-T2-T3-T4	11.0-35.0-36.0-18.0
N0-N1	46.2-53.8
M0-M1	82.5-17.5
G2-G3	59.3-40.7
R0-R1	65.6-34.4
ECOG PS [%]
ECOG 0	50.5
ECOG 1	40.2
ECOG 2	9.3

BTC: biliary tract cancer; BMI: body mass index; ECOG PS: “Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group” performance status.