Table 1.

Clinicopathologic Variables and NFS1 Level in 206 GC Patients

Variables	No.	NFS1 Expression		χ2	P-value
		High n=143	Low n=63
Gender				0.913	0.339
Male	156	111	45
Female	50	32	18
Age (years)				2.478	0.115
<65	91	58	33
≥65	115	85	30
Tumor location				0.629	0.428
Upper	64	42	22
Middle + lower	142	101	41
Tumor size (cm)				1.033	0.310
<5	130	87	43
≥5	76	56	20
Depth of invasion				5.689	0.017
T1 + T2	36	19	17
T3 + T4	170	124	46
Lymph node metastasis				10.018	0.002
Absent	72	40	32
Present	134	103	31
M stage				1.501	0.221
M0	181	123	58
M1	25	20	5
Differentiation				0.027	0.868
Well + moderate	80	55	25
Poor + undifferentiated	126	88	38
TNM stage				11.365	0.001
I + II	76	42	34
III + IV	130	101	29