Table 1.
Correlation between LMTK3 expression and patients’clinical characteristics
| Clinicopathological features | Cases | LMTK3 expression | X2 | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| |||||
| High, n (%) | Low, n (%) | ||||
| Sex | 1.033 | 0.309 | |||
| Male | 39 | 23 (59.0) | 16 (41.0) | ||
| Female | 30 | 14 (46.7) | 16 (53.3) | ||
| Age (years) | 0.198 | 0.657 | |||
| ≥60 | 30 | 17 (56.7) | 13 (43.3) | ||
| <60 | 39 | 20 (51.3) | 19 (48.7) | ||
| Tumor location | 1.331 | 0.249 | |||
| Colon | 38 | 18 (47.4) | 20 (52.6) | ||
| Rectum | 31 | 19 (61.3) | 12 (38.7) | ||
| Histological differentiation | 0.278 | 0.598 | |||
| Well, moderate | 43 | 22 (51.2) | 21 (48.8) | ||
| Poor, mucinous | 26 | 15 (57.7) | 11 (42.3) | ||
| Tumor size | 2.339 | 0.126 | |||
| <5 cm | 32 | 14 (43.8) | 18 (56.2) | ||
| ≥5 cm | 37 | 23 (62.2) | 14 (37.8) | ||
| Depth of tumor invasion | 1.430 | 0.232 | |||
| T1, 2 | 15 | 6 (40.0) | 9 (60.0) | ||
| T3, 4 | 54 | 31 (57.4) | 23 (42.6) | ||
| Lymph node metastasis | 9.108 | 0.003 | |||
| Negative | 43 | 17 (39.5) | 26 (60.5) | ||
| Positive | 26 | 20 (76.9) | 6 (23.1) | ||
| Stage | 7.103 | 0.008 | |||
| I+II | 40 | 16 (40.0) | 24 (60.0) | ||
| III+IV | 29 | 21 (72.4) | 8 (27.6) | ||