Table 1 Patients characteristics of training set and validation set

From: Prospective validation of quantitative CEA mRNA detection in peritoneal washes in gastric carcinoma patients

Variate

Training set

Validation set

P- value

Tumour size

   

5 cm

107 (54.3%)

39 (45.3%)

0.1961

 >5 cm

90 (45.7%)

47 (54.7%)

 

Histological type

   

 Differentiated

66 (33.5%)

28 (32.6%)

0.8767

 Undifferentiated

131 (66.5%)

58 (67.4%)

 

T stage

   

 t1

91 (46.2%)

19 (22.1%)

0.0003

 t2

57 (28.9%)

28 (32.6%)

 

 t3

40 (20.3%)

35 (40.7%)

 

 t4

9 (4.6%)

4 (4.7%)

 

Lymph node metastasis

   

 Negative

106 (53.8%)

23 (26.7%)

<0.0001

 Positive

91 (46.2%)

63 (73.3%)

 

Peritoneal wash cytology

   

 Class I

100 (50.8%)

78 (90.7%)

<0.0001

 Class II

74 (37.6%)

3 (3.5%)

 

 Class III

5 (2.5%)

4 (4.7%)

 

 Class IV

1 (0.5%)

0 (0.0%)

 

 Class V

17 (8.6%)

1 (1.2%)

 

CEA mRNA status in peritoneal wash

   

 Negative

142 (72.1%)

66 (76.7%)

0.4657

 Positive

55 (27.9%)

20 (23.3%)

 

Operative type

   

 Distal gastrectomy

133 (67.5%)

45 (52.3%)

0.0635

 Proximal gastrectomy

12 (6.1%)

6 (6.9%)

 

 Total gastrectomy

51 (25.9%)

33 (38.4%)

 

 Pancreaticoduodenectomy

1 (0.5%)

2 (2.3%)

 

Adjuvant chemotherapy

   

 Yes

41 (20.8%)

11 (12.8%)

0.1334

 No

156 (79.2%)

75 (87.2%)

 
  1. CEA=carcinoembryonic antigen.