Table I.

Positive rates of serum anti-AEG-1 auto-antibody in different types of cancer patients and normal individuals.

Sample	Total sample number	AEG-1 auto-antibody positive number	N (%)	P-valuea
Breast cancer	98	44	45	<0.01
Hepatic carcinoma	96	48	50	<0.01
Retal cancer	88	43	49	<0.01
Lung cancer	113	51	45	<0.01
Gastric cancer	88	52	59	<0.01
Total cancer	483	238	49	<0.01
Normal	230	0	0

^aCompared with normal sample.

AEG-1, astrocyte elevated gene-1.