Table 1. Correlation between DKK1 and various clinicopathological parameters *Well group vs. moderate; **T3 vs. T4.
| Parameters | n |
DKK1 expression
|
χ2 | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive(%) | Negative(%) | ||||
| Age(years) | |||||
| <60 | 64 | 39(60.9%) | 25(39.1%) | 0.578 | 0.2940 |
| ≥60 | 38 | 26(68.4%) | 12(31.6%) | ||
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 81 | 51(63.0%) | 30(37.0%) | 0.099 | 0.4820 |
| Female | 21 | 14(66.7%) | 7(33.3%) | ||
| Differentiation | |||||
| Well | 32 | 21(65.6%) | 11(34.4%) | 0.064 | 0.8003* |
| Moderate | 43 | 27(62.8%) | 16(37.2%) | ||
| Poor | 27 | 17(63.0%) | 10(37.0%) | ||
| T | |||||
| T1 | 11 | 7(63.6%) | 4(36.4%) | 0.1213 | 0.7276** |
| T2 | 36 | 23(63.9%) | 13(36.1%) | ||
| T3 | 18 | 24(66.7%) | 12(33.3%) | ||
| T4 | 19 | 11(57.9%) | 8(42.1%) | ||
| N(Metastasis) | |||||
| Positive(N1+N2) | 54 | 47(87.0%) | 7(13.0%) | 26.976 | 0.0000 |
| Negative(N0) | 48 | 18(37.5%) | 30(62.5%) | ||