Table I.

Correlation between TIMM50 expression and clinicopathologic variables

Characteristics	TIMM50 expression			P-value
	All cases	Low	High
Age:
≥ 65	90	48	42	0.187
< 65	102	64	38
Gender:
Male	123	70	53	0.593
Female	69	42	27
Tumor site:
Colon	92	53	39	0.845
Rectum	100	59	41
Grade:
Well or moderate	141	86	55	0.214
Poor	51	26	25
Pathologic stage:
1–2	91	60	31	0.043*
3–4	101	52	49
T stage:
1–2	56	38	18	0.086
3–4	136	74	62
N stage:
0	93	61	32	0.048*
1–2	99	51	48
Distant metastasis:
0 (no)	167	103	64	0.015*
1 (yes)	25	9	16
CEA:
≤ 10	137	85	52	0.100
> 10	55	27	28

Well – well differentiated, moderate – moderate differentiation, poor – poor differentiation.

^*P < 0.05.