Table 1.
Correlation between MTA2 and clinicopathological characteristics of gastric cancer patients
| Clinicopathological characteristics |
MTA2 |
P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | + | |||
| Tumor invasion | ||||
| |
T1 |
10 |
3 |
0.003 |
| |
T2 |
15 |
8 |
|
| |
T3 |
25 |
50 |
|
| |
T4 |
6 |
10 |
|
| Lymph node metastasis | ||||
| |
Negative |
28 |
21 |
0.019 |
| |
Positive |
28 |
50 |
|
| TNM staging | ||||
| |
I |
20 |
9 |
0.007 |
| |
II |
13 |
14 |
|
| |
III |
13 |
32 |
|
| |
IV |
10 |
16 |
|
| Lauren’s type | ||||
| |
Intestinal |
28 |
31 |
>0.05 |
| |
Diffuse |
28 |
40 |
|
| Differentiation | ||||
| |
High |
16 |
15 |
>0.05 |
| Low | 40 | 56 | ||