Table 1 Relation between intratumoral OLFM4 expression and clinical characteristics of early gastric cancer

From: Loss of OLFM4 promotes tumor migration through inducing interleukin-8 expression and predicts lymph node metastasis in early gastric cancer

Factor

Patients

OLFM4 expression

 

No.

%

Low

High

P-value

All patients

105

100

32

73

 

Age (years)

    

0.603

 ⩽65

65

61.9

21

44

 

 >65

40

38.1

11

29

 

Gender

    

0.846

 Female

51

48.6

16

35

 

 Male

54

51.4

16

38

 

Localization

    

0.374

 Proximal

6

5.7

2

4

 

 Middle

33

31.4

7

26

 

 Distal

66

62.9

23

43

 

Diameter

    

0.071

 ⩽2cm

66

62.8

16

50

 

 >2cm

39

37.2

16

23

 

Differentiation

    

0.599

 Well+Moderately

50

47.6

14

36

 

 Poorly

55

52.4

18

37

 

Lauren classification

    

0.134

 Intestinal type

70

66.7

18

52

 

 Diffuse type+Mixed type

35

33.3

14

21

 

Intravascular tumor thrombi

    

0.175

 No

93

88.6

25

68

 

 Yes

12

11.4

6

6

 

T classification

    

0.071

 T1a

66

62.9

16

50

 

 T1b

39

37.1

16

23

 

N classification

    

<0.001

 LN (−)

81

77.1

17

64

 

 LN (+)

24

22.9

15

9

 

TNM stage

    

0.087

 I

94

89.5

26

68

 

 II

11

10.5

6

5

 
  1. Abbreviations: LN, lymph node; TNM, tumor node metastasis. P-value<0.05 marked in bold font shows statistical significance.
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