Table 1 Clinicopathological characteristics of the study cohort
From: Metabolite profiling of human colon carcinoma – deregulation of TCA cycle and amino acid turnover
Characteristic | Number of cases (%) |
|---|---|
Tissue type | |
Normal colon tissue | 18 (40%) |
Colon carcinoma | 27 (60%) |
Cases with paired normal and carcinoma tissue | 15 (33%) |
Characteristics of colon carcinomas | |
pT stage | |
pT1 | 1 (4%) |
pT2 | 4 (15%) |
pT3 | 20 (74%) |
pT4 | 2 (7%) |
pN stage | |
pN0 | 12 (44%) |
pN1 | 7 (26%) |
pN2 | 8 (30%) |
pM | |
pMX | 26 (96%) |
pM1 | 1 (4%) |
DUKES Stage | |
A | 3 (11%) |
B | 9 (33%) |
C | 14 (52%) |
D | 1 (4%) |
Sex | |
male | 12 (44%) |
female | 15 (56%) |
Histological type | |
Adenocarcinoma | 30 (100%) |