Table 2.
Correlation between S100A4 expression and clinicopathological parameters in pancreatic cancer, n (%)
| Clinicopathological parameters | Cases (n) |
S100A4 expression |
P value | |
| Positive | Negative | |||
| Age (yr) | ||||
| ≥ 70 | 24 | 15 (62.5) | 9 (37.5) | |
| < 70 | 38 | 23 (60.5) | 15 (39.5) | > 0.051 |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 36 | 22 (61.9) | 14 (38.1) | |
| Female | 26 | 16 (61.5) | 10 (38.5) | > 0.051 |
| Differentiation | ||||
| Well | 17 | 12 (70.6) | 5 (29.4) | |
| Moderately | 15 | 9 (60.0) | 6 (40.0) | |
| Poorly | 30 | 17 (56.7) | 13 (43.3) | > 0.051 |
| Tumor size (cm) | ||||
| < 2.0 | 3 | 0 (0) | 3 (100) | |
| 2.0-4.0 | 38 | 21 (55.3) | 17 (44.7) | |
| > 4.0 | 21 | 17 (81.0) | 4 (19.0) | < 0.052 |
| Lymph node metastasis | ||||
| (-) | 13 | 5 (38.5) | 8 (61.5) | |
| (+) | 49 | 33 (67.3) | 16 (32.7) | > 0.051 |
| Distant metastasis | ||||
| (-) | 39 | 23 (59.0) | 16 (41.0) | |
| (+) | 23 | 15 (65.2) | 8 (34.8) | > 0.051 |
| TNM stage | ||||
| I + II | 30 | 14 (46.7) | 16 (53.3) | |
| III + IV | 32 | 24 (75.0) | 8 (25.0) | < 0.051 |
1
Significance was estimated with χ2 test;
2
Significance was estimated with Fisher’s exact test.