Table 1.
Relationship between ATP7B expression and clinicopathological variables in gastric cardiac carcinomas
| Variables | n |
ATP7B |
Significance1 | |
| Negative | Positive | |||
| Total | 49 | 24 | 25 (51.0%) | |
| Median age (yr) | 54 | 56 | NS | |
| Degree of differentiation | 0.030 | |||
| Well/moderately differentiated | 13 | 6 | ||
| Poorly differentiated | 11 | 19 | ||
| Tumor size | NS | |||
| T1 + T2 | 10 | 7 | ||
| T3 + T4 | 14 | 18 | ||
| Nodal stage | NS | |||
| N (-) | 3 | 5 | ||
| N (+) | 21 | 20 | ||
| Metastasis status | NS | |||
| M0 | 21 | 19 | ||
| M1 | 3 | 6 | ||
1
Pearson Chi-Square and Fisher’s exact tests were used; NS: Not significant.