Table 2 Tumour budding in submucosal colorectal cancers and clinicopathological features

From: Tumour budding at the deepest invasive margin correlates with lymph node metastasis in submucosal colorectal cancer detected by anticytokeratin antibody CAM5.2

  

Tumour budding

 
 

n

Present

Absent

P -value

Mean age (years)±s.d.

56

61.8±11.0

65.9±8.0

NS

Gender

 Male

41

31

10

NS

 Female

15

11

4

 

Size (mm)±s.d.

56

21.7±9.3

25.9±16.6

NS

Histologic type

 Well

47

35

12

NS

 Moderately

8

7

1

 

 Poorly

1

0

1

 

Lymphatic involvement

 Absent

49

35

14

0.12

 Present

7

7

0

 

Lymph nodes metastasis (including ITCs and micrometastasis)

 Absent

40

26

14

0.004

 Present

16

16

0

 

Venous involvement

 Absent

25

20

5

NS

 Present

31

22

9

 
  1. ITC=isolated tumour cells; NS=not significant; s.d.=standard deviation.