Journal of Hematology & Oncology

Table 1 Characteristics of the study population (N = 490)

From: Evaluation of lymph node numbers for adequate staging of Stage II and III colon cancer

	StageII (n = 260, 53.1%)		Stage III (n = 230, 46.9%)
Variable	n	(%)	n	(%)	P value
Age (years)					0.024
< 65	85	32.7	98	42.6
≥ 65	175	67.3	132	57.4
Sex					0.959
Male	134	51.5	118	51.3
Female	126	48.5	112	48.7
Race					0.202
Caucasian Americans	165	63.5	133	57.8
African Americans	95	36.5	97	42.2
Tumor grade					0.380
Low	216	83.1	184	80.0
High	44	16.9	46	20.0
Tumor location					0.521
Distal	100	38.5	95	41.3
Proximal	160	61.5	135	58.7
Tumor size (cm)					0.040
< 5	116	44.6	124	53.9
≥ 5	144	55.4	106	46.1
Adjuvant chemotherapy					< 0.0001
No	237	91.2	180	78.3
Yes	23	8.8	50	21.7
Status					< 0.0001
Alive	89	34.2	59	25.6
Death due to colon cancer	77	29.6	123	53.5
Death due to other causes	94	36.2	48	20.9
Recurrence (years)					0.048
No	209	80.4	163	70.9
≤ 2	35	13.5	47	20.4
> 2	16	6.1	20	8.7
Number of LNs harvested					0.615
1-6	55	21.2	38	16.5
7-11	63	24.2	57	24.8
12-19	75	28.8	73	31.7
≥ 20	67	25.8	62	27.0

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