Table 5.
Correlation between caspase-3 expression and various clinicopathological features ofpatients with colorectal cancer
| Caspase-3 expression | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
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| low | high | ||
| n | 69 | 32 | |
| Age | |||
| ≤ 50 | 23 | 8 | |
| > 50 | 46 | 24 | 0.398 |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 46 | 21 | |
| Female | 23 | 11 | 0.918 |
| Lymph node status | |||
| Negative | 52 | 17 | |
| Positive | 17 | 15 | 0.025 |
| Therapy | |||
| Surgery | 25 | 9 | |
| Surgery+others | 44 | 23 | 0.422 |
| Depth of tumor invation | |||
| Subserosa | 49 | 16 | |
| Serosa | 20 | 16 | 0.040 |
| Differentiation | |||
| Well | 7 | 6 | |
| Moderately | 52 | 22 | 0.502 |
| Poorly | 10 | 4 | |
| Dukes classification | |||
| A+B | 51 | 16 | |
| C+D | 18 | 16 | 0.018 |
| Tumor diameter, cm | |||
| < 5 | 19 | 12 | |
| ≥ 5 | 50 | 20 | 0.312 |