Table 1.

Correlation of Axl Expression with Clinicopathologic Features of Patients with Lung Cancer.

Clinicopathologic Features	Axl Expression
	Negative (n = 30)*	Positive (n = 28)*	P value
Gender
Male (n = 31)*	15	16	.389
Female (n = 27)	15	12
Size (cm)
≤3.0 (n = 21)	12	9	.364
>3.0 (n = 37)	18	19
Lymph node involvement
No (n = 29)	23	6	<.0001
Yes (n = 29)	7	22
Differentiation
Well (n = 13)	8	5	.380
Moderate (n = 29)	16	13
Poor (n = 16)	6	10
Staging
Localized (n = 20)	17	3	<.0001
Advanced (n = 38)	13	25

^*Data are numbers of cases. The expression of Axl is classified as positive if >25% of tumor cells are stained and as negative if <25% of cancer cells are stained.