Relationship between telomerase activity and its subunit expression and inhibitory effect of antisense hTR on pancreatic carcinoma

Table 2 The relationship between telomerase activity and biological behavior of human pancreatic carcinoma

Biological behavior	Telomerase activity
	–	+	AverageA (+)
Age	63.15 ± 0.45	62.50 ± 0.31	1.21 ± 0.11
Sex
Male	1	12	1.22 ± 0.13
Female	2	9	1.15 ± 0.44
Pathologic type
Cystadenocarcinoma	1	1	1.19
Duct cell adenocystoma	2	19	1.13 ± 0.39
Mucinous adenocystoma		1	1.22
Histologic differentiation
Well-diff.	3	3	0.66 ± 0.33a
Mod-diff.		10	1.10 ± 0.16
Poorly-diff.		8	1.46 ± 0.12
Invasion stage
Non-invasive	1	3	0.86 ± 0.31
Invasive	2	18	1.20 ± 0.35
Lymphnode metastasis
Absent	1	6	0.88 ± 0.31b
Present	2	15	1.31 ± 0.24
TNM stage
I	1	1	1.19
II		5	0.81 ± 0.35c
III	2	10	1.28 ± 0.24
IV		5	1.34 ± 0.12

^aP < 0.01 (F = 26.06);

^bP < 0.01 (t = 3.22);

^cP < 0.01 (F = 9.31).