Table 1 Clinicopathologic features of colon cancer stratified by SATB2 and CDX2 immunohistochemical expression

From: SATB2 and CDX2 are prognostic biomarkers in DNA mismatch repair protein deficient colon cancer

Clinical and pathologic features

Negative SATB2 expression N (%)

Positive SATB2 expression N (%)

p-value

Negative CDX2 expression N (%)

Positive CDX2 expression N (%)

p-value

No. of patientsa

67 (13)

432 (87)

NA

55 (11)

451 (89)

NA

Gender, male/female

26 (39)/41 (61)

212 (49)/220 (51)

0.1

20 (36)/35 (64)

218 (48)/233 (52)

0.09

Mean age in years (range)

69 (33–98)

68 (23–95)

0.5

69 (33–98)

68 (23–95)

0.5

Tumor locationa

 Cecum

18 (27)

89 (21)

0.01

16 (29)

93 (21)

0.004

 Right colon

34 (51)

164 (38)

30 (55)

169 (38)

 Left colon

15 (22)

179 (41)

9 (16)

186 (41)

Mean tumor size (cm) (range)

5.2 (0.2–13.4)

4.9 (0.2–13.5)

0.5

5.2 (0.2–13.4)

4.9 (0.2–13.5)

0.5

Stage

      

  I

7 (10)

63 (15)

0.6

4 (7)

66 (15)

0.4

  II

23 (34)

161 (37)

25 (45)

165 (37)

  III

27 (40)

140 (32)

18 (33)

148 (33)

  IV

10 (15)

68 (16)

8 (15)

72 (16)

No. cases with histologic review performed

44

313

NA

24

338

NA

 High tumor grade

18 (41)

33 (11)

<0.001

12 (50)

42 (12)

<0.001

 High tumor budding

18 (41)

90 (29)

0.1

7 (29)

101 (30)

0.9

 Lymphatic invasion

30 (68)

161 (51)

0.04

20 (83)

174 (51)

0.002

 Venous invasion

17 (39)

70 (22)

0.02

10 (42)

78 (23)

0.04

 Perineural invasion

16 (36)

69 (22)

0.04

10 (42)

75 (22)

0.03

 Mucinous  differentiation

22 (50)

79 (25)

0.002

9 (38)

96 (28)

0.1

 Signet ring cell differentiation

7 (16)

8 (3)

<0.001

2 (8)

15 (4)

0.4

 Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes

9 (20)

57 (18)

0.7

11 (46)

56 (17)

<0.001

  1. aThree tumors did not have a tumor location specified