Table 1.
Correlation between other clinicopathologic characteristics and tumor size n (%)
| Factors | LST | SST | P |
| Gender | 0.221 | ||
| Male | 148 (66.7) | 150 (72.1) | |
| Female | 74 (33.3) | 58 (27.9) | |
| Age (yr) | 0.209 | ||
| < 60 | 119 (53.6) | 124 (59.6) | |
| ≥ 60 | 103 (46.4) | 84 (40.4) | |
| Histological type | 0.039 | ||
| Differentiated | 45 (20.3) | 60 (28.8) | |
| Undifferentiated | 177 (79.7) | 148 (71.2) | |
| Borrmann type | 0.000 | ||
| I/II | 50 (22.5) | 111 (53.4) | |
| III/IV | 172 (77.5) | 97 (46.6) | |
| Lymph node metastasis | 0.000 | ||
| pN0 | 35 (15.8) | 70 (33.7) | |
| pN1 | 41 (18.5) | 51 (24.5) | |
| pN2 | 52 (23.4) | 42 (20.2) | |
| pN3 | 94 (42.3) | 45 (21.6) | |
| Depth of invasion | 0.000 | ||
| pT2 | 28 (12.6) | 89 (42.8) | |
| pT3 | 19 (8.6) | 21 (10.1) | |
| pT4a | 175 (78.8) | 98 (47.1) | |
| TNM stage | 0.000 | ||
| IB | 9 (4.1) | 36 (17.3) | |
| IIA | 14 (6.3) | 35 (16.8) | |
| IIB | 33 (14.9) | 45 (21.6) | |
| IIIA | 30 (13.5) | 35 (16.8) | |
| IIIB | 54 (24.3) | 28 (13.5) | |
| IIIC | 82 (36.9) | 29 (14.0) | |
| Number of lymph nodes | 8.02 ± 8.66 | 3.98 ± 5.65 | 0.000 |
| MLR | 0.000 | ||
| 0 | 35 (15.8) | 70 (33.6) | |
| 1 | 37 (16.7) | 46 (22.1) | |
| 2 | 41 (18.5) | 43 (20.7) | |
| 3 | 109 (49.0) | 49 (23.6) |
LST: Large-sized tumor; SST: Small-sized tumor; MLR: Metastatic lymph node ratio; TNM: Tumor-nodes metastasis.