Table I.
Correlations between claudin-7 expression and clinicopathological characteristics in 31 endometrial carcinoma samples.
| Variables | No. of patients | Claudin-7 expression
|
P-valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative | Positive | |||
| Age (years) | ||||
| <60 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 0.715 |
| ≥60 | 14 | 7 | 7 | |
| Stage | ||||
| I | 21 | 9 | 12 | 0.023 |
| II | 5 | 2 | 3 | |
| III | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
| IV | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Grade | ||||
| 1 | 23 | 8 | 15 | 0.018 |
| 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Myometrial invasion | ||||
| <1/2 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0.560 |
| ≥1/2 | 12 | 5 | 7 | |
| ER expression | ||||
| Negative | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0.125 |
| Positive | 22 | 10 | 12 | |
| PR expression | ||||
| Negative | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0.318 |
| Positive | 26 | 12 | 14 | |
| p53 expression | ||||
| Negative | 23 | 10 | 13 | 0.266 |
| Positive | 8 | 3 | 5 | |
a
From the χ2 test.