Table 2.

Correlations of tumor clinicopathological characteristics with ERα, ERβ, PGR, and AR protein expression in malignant colonic tissues from all patients (n = 120) by Pearson’s correlation test.

	ERα IHC scores	ERβ IHC scores	PGR IHC scores	AR IHC scores
Female gender	0.247**	-0.239**	-0.161	-0.663**
Age	0.351**	-0.254**	-0.291**	0.150
Right-sided cancer	0.143	0.030	-0.136	-0.038
T stage	0.114	-0.230*	-0.084	0.189*
Tumor Size	0.291**	-0.326**	-0.297**	0.105
N Stage	0.617***	-0.579**	-0.208*	0.320**
Numbers of positive lymph nodes	0.604***	-0.591**	-0.259**	0.259**
M Stage	0.206*	-0.295**	-0.104	0.177
Mucinous Carcinoma	0.057	-0.096	-0.144	-0.013
Poor differentiation	0.094	-0.058	0.028	-0.029
Lymphovascular invasion	0.170	-0.263**	-0.162	0.166
Perineural invasion	-0.071	-0.125	-0.092	0.124
Late-stage cancer	0.728***	-0.720***	-0.320**	0.434**

^{*P< 0.05.}

^{**P< 0.01.}

^{***P< 0.001.}