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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients according to the degrees of MSI

From: The degree of microsatellite instability predicts response to PD-1 blockade immunotherapy in mismatch repair-deficient/microsatellite instability-high colorectal cancers

Variables

Instability loci < 3

Instability loci ≥ 3

P value

n

17

16

 

Age-median (range), year

45.0 (19.0–64.0)

45.5 (30.0–67.0)

0.783

Sex-n

  

0.112

 Male

7

11

 

 Female

10

5

 

Tumor stage-n

  

0.619

 II/III

4

5

 

 IV

13

11

 

Lines of therapy-n

  

0.119

 First line

5

9

 

 Second or late line

12

7

 

Combined with chemotherapy-n

  

0.055

 Yes

13

7

 

 No

4

9