Table 1.

Analysis of the association of PDZK1 expression with the clinicopathological features in 30 HCC patients

Characteristics	No. of cases	PDZK1 expression		P-value
		High (≤ medium)	Low (≥ medium)
Number	30	15	15
Age (y)				0.7125a
< 60	13	7	6
> 60	17	8	9
Gender				0.1432a
Female	14	9	5
Male	16	6	10
TNM stage				< 0.05a
I–II	18	6	12
III–IV	12	9	3
Degree of differentiation				< 0.01a
Well/moderate	17	5	12
Poor	13	10	3
Lymph node metastasis				< 0.01a
No	19	6	13
Yes	11	9	2

^a Two-sided chi-squared test