Table 3 Patient demographics and clinical information.

From: Rapid discrimination of human oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma by mass spectrometry based on differences in amino acid metabolism

Male/female

26/6

Median age (range)

62.5 (37–84)

Location

 Middle thoracic

22

 Lower thoracic

10

Degree of differentiation

 Well

2

 Moderate

19

 Poorly

11

T stage

 T 1

9

 T 2

14

 T 3

8

 T 4

1

N stage

 N 0

21

 N 1

10

 N 2

1

 N 3

0

M stage

 M 0

32

 M 1

0

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