Brief Article
Copyright ©2012 Baishideng Publishing Group Co.
World J Gastroenterol. May 21, 2012; 18(19): 2423-2429
Published online May 21, 2012. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i19.2423
Table 1 Patient characteristics and Popeye domain containing 3 expression in gastric cancer n (%)
Clinical parametersPopdc3
nLowHighχ2Pvalue
Age (yr)
< 5010572 (68.6)33 (31.4)
≥ 50201156 (77.6)45 (22.4)2.9680.085
Gender
Male199148 (74.4)51 (25.6)
Female10780 (74.8)27 (25.2)0.0060.940
Size (cm)
< 5154120 (77.9)34 (22.1)
≥ 5152108 (71.1)44 (28.9)1.9010.168
Histology
Papillary adenocarcinoma85 (62.5)3 (37.5)
Tubular adenocarcinoma209151 (72.2)58 (27.8)
Mucinous adenocarcinoma5242 (80.8)10 (19.2)
Signet ring cell carcinoma3730 (81.1)7 (18.9)3.0840.379
Histologic differentiation
Well1713 (76.5)4 (23.5)
Moderate10067 (67)33 (33)
Poor177140 (79.1)37 (20.9)
Undifferentiated128 (66.7)4 (33.3)4.4390.109
Invasion depth
T12410 (41.7)14 (58.3)
T26332 (50.8)31 (49.2)
T3181149 (82.3)32 (17.7)
T4a2824 (85.7)4 (14.3)
T4b107 (70.0)3 (30.0)48.566< 0.0001
Regional lymph nodes
N016394 (57.7)69 (42.3)
N14139 (95.1)2 (4.9)
N25449 (90.7)5 (9.3)
N3a2014 (70.0)6 (30.0)
N3b2719 (70.4)8 (29.6)52.504< 0.0001
Distant metastasis
M0274197 (71.9)77 (28.1)
M13231 (96.9)1 (3.1)9.4120.002
TNM stages
I7330 (41.1)43 (58.9)
II10981 (74.3)28 (25.7)
III9286 (93.5)6 (6.5)
IV3231 (96.9)1 (3.1)70.624< 0.0001