Table 4 The correlation between clinicopathological factor and c-MYC GCN gain with ddPCR in 64 CRC patients of cohort 2.

From: Digital polymerase chain reaction for detecting c-MYC copy number gain in tissue and cell-free plasma samples of colorectal cancer patients

 

Total number of cases

c-MYC ddPCR (Tissue)

p-value

4 > GCN

4 ≤ GCN

Age

60>

39

37

61.7%

2

50.0%

0.643

60≤

25

23

38.3%

2

50.0%

Sex

Male

23

22

36.7%

1

25.0%

0.638

Female

41

38

63.3%

3

75.0%

Size

5 cm>

49

47

78.3%

2

50.0%

0.195

5 cm≤

15

13

21.7%

2

50.0%

Location

Ascending to descending colon

17

14

23.3%

3

75.0%

0.023

Recto-sigmoid colon

47

46

76.7%

1

25.0%

T stage

1–2

17

16

26.7%

1

25.0%

0.942

3–4

47

44

73.3%

3

75.0%

N stage

0

34

34

56.7%

0

0.0%

0.028

1–2

30

26

43.3%

4

100.0%

M stage

0

62

58

96.7%

4

100.0%

0.711

1

2

2

3.3%

0

0.0%

Differentiation

Low grade

56

54

90.0%

2

50.0%

0.019

High grade

8

6

10.0%

2

50.0%

Lymphatic invasion

No

44

43

71.7%

1

25.0%

0.051

Yes

20

17

28.3%

3

75.0%

Venous invasion

No

48

46

76.7%

2

50.0%

0.233

Yes

16

14

23.3%

2

50.0%

Perineura invasion

No

39

37

61.7%

2

50.0%

0.643

Yes

25

23

38.3%

2

50.0%

Tumor border

Infiltrative

14

14

23.3%

0

0.0%

0.274

Expensile

50

46

76.7%

4

100.0%

Post-operative Chemotherapy

No

56

52

86.7%

4

100.0%

0.435

Yes

8

8

13.3%

0

0.0%

  1. p values are from the χ2 or Fisher’s exact test and were significant at less than 0.05.