Table 1.
Relationship between circGAPVD1 expression level and clinicopathological characteristics of CRC patients.
| Clinicopathological features |
Total number of cases (n = 78) |
circGAPVD1 expression level |
x2 | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low expression (n = 39) | High expression (n = 39) | ||||
| Age (years) | |||||
| ≤65 | 52 | 28 | 24 | 0.923 | 0.337 |
| >65 | 26 | 11 | 15 | ||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 45 | 23 | 22 | 0.053 | 0.819 |
| Female | 33 | 16 | 17 | ||
| Tumor site | |||||
| Colon | 34 | 15 | 19 | 0.834 | 0.361 |
| Rectum | 44 | 24 | 20 | ||
| Tumor size (cm) | |||||
| ≤5 | 53 | 28 | 25 | 0.530 | 0.467 |
| >5 | 25 | 11 | 14 | ||
| Lymph node metastasis | |||||
| N0 | 48 | 30 | 18 | 7.800 | 0.005 |
| N1–2 | 30 | 9 | 21 | ||
| Distant metastasis | |||||
| M0 | 74 | 38 | 36 | 1.054 | 0.305 |
| M1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||
| TNM Stage | |||||
| I–II | 47 | 29 | 18 | 6.478 | 0.011 |
| III–IV | 31 | 10 | 21 | ||