Table 2 Correlation of Claudin-5 expression to clinicopathological characteristics of lung cancer patients
Variable | Lung squamous carcinoma | Variable | Lung adenocarcinoma | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All patients | Low | High | P-value | All patients | Low | High | P-value | ||
Gender | 0.084 | Gender | 0.972 | ||||||
Male | 71 | 31 | 40 | Male | 39 | 11 | 28 | ||
Female | 4 | 0 | 4 | Female | 35 | 10 | 25 | ||
Age (years) | 0.975 | Age (years) | 0.432 | ||||||
≤60 | 35 | 15 | 20 | ≤60 | 34 | 8 | 26 | ||
>60 | 40 | 17 | 23 | >60 | 41 | 13 | 28 | ||
Differentiation | 0.036* | Differentiation | 0.155 | ||||||
I | 6 | 4 | 2 | I | 14 | 1 | 13 | ||
II | 44 | 20 | 24 | II | 42 | 14 | 28 | ||
III | 25 | 8 | 17 | III | 19 | 6 | 13 | ||
Staging | 0.597 | Staging | 0.216 | ||||||
IA | 9 | 3 | 6 | IA | 14 | 2 | 12 | ||
IB | 14 | 5 | 9 | IB | 23 | 4 | 19 | ||
IIA | 13 | 6 | 7 | IIA | 14 | 5 | 9 | ||
IIB | 10 | 6 | 4 | IIB | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||
IIIA | 22 | 11 | 16 | IIIA | 11 | 4 | 7 | ||
IIIB | 2 | 1 | 1 | IIIB | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||
IV | 5 | 4 | 1 | III | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
IV | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
