Table 4

Gene expression and disease control with XelOX therapy


CR+PR+SD
PD
total

TS ≤ median
25
5
30

TS > median
17
13
30

ERCC1 ≤ 75th%
35
10
45

ERCC1 > 75th%
8
7
15

Six subjects were not assessable for response; therefore, only 60 subjects each with informative TS and ERCC1 samples from metastatic tumor tissue are included in the analysis between gene expression and disease control. The Fisher exact test p-value was 0.047 for TS and 0.099 for ERCC1.

Uchida et al. BMC Cancer 2008 8:386   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-386