Table 1. Patient characteristics.
| Characteristics | N = 434 |
| Age (yrs) | |
| Median, range | 61, 26–87 |
| Sex | |
| Male | 285 (65.7%) |
| Female | 149 (34.3%) |
| Type of gastrectomy | |
| Subtotal gastrectomy | 242 (55.8%) |
| Total gastrectomy | 192 (44.2%) |
| Location of tumor | |
| Cardia | 12 (2.8%) |
| Body | 142 (32.7%) |
| Antrum | 280 (64.5%) |
| Grade | |
| Well to moderately differentiated tubular | 138 (31.8%) |
| Poorly differentiated tubular | 186 (42.9%) |
| Signet ring cell | 70 (16.1%) |
| Mucinous | 32 (7.4%) |
| Papillary | 2 (0.5%) |
| Hepatoid | 2 (0.5%) |
| Others | 4 (0.9%) |
| Lauren type (N = 397) | |
| Intestinal | 154 (38.8%) |
| Diffuse | 225 (56.7%) |
| Mixed | 18 (4.5%) |
| Lymphovascular invasion | |
| Present/Identified | 256 (59%) |
| Not Present/Not Identified | 178 (41.0%) |
| AJCC stage (2002) | |
| I | 86 (198.8%) |
| II | 116 (26.7%) |
| III | 126 (29.0%) |
| IV | 106 (24.4%) |
Patient characteristics of the gastric cancer clinical sample set.