Table 1 Patient characteristics, location of tumours, staging and investigated lymph nodes
Patient No | Sex | Age (year) | Tumour site | Duke's classification | Metastatic nodes/harvest nodes | No of SNs obtained | Number of cells in SN (× 106) | %CD4/%CD8 a |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | M | 80 | Sigmoid | B | 0/18 | 1 | 27 | 44/6 |
2 | M | 81 | Ascending | B | 0/22 | 1 | 63 | 52/7 |
3 | F | 58 | Ascending | B | 0/29 | 1 | MI | 41/7 |
4 | F | 80 | Ascending | B | 0/5 | 2 | 29 | 65/4 |
5 | M | 82 | Ascending | B | 0/12 | 4 | 14 | 55/14 |
6 | M | 66 | Descending | B | 0/22 | 3 | 66 | 47/5 |
7 | F | 73 | Transversum | B | 0/23 | 4 | 26 | 58/7 |
8 | M | 66 | Caecum | B | 0/19 | 2 | 159 | 35/6 |
9 | M | 71 | Descending | B | 0/25 | 3 | 121 | 43/10 |
10 | M | 70 | Sigmoid | C | 1/14 | 2 | 33 | 55/8 |
11 | F | 78 | Ascending | C | 2/19 | 2 | 11 | 27/58 |
12 | F | 75 | Ascending | C | 4/23 | 2 | 36 | 37/ND |
13 | F | 63 | Sigmoid | C | 6/20 | 3 | 170 | 41/7 |
14 | F | 57 | Sigmoid | C | 1/17 | 2 | 278 | 41/14 |
15 | F | 61 | Sigmoid | D | 1/13 | 3 | 30 | 34/6 |
