Table 1. Relationships of effectiveness of chemotherapy to clinicopathological factors and serum CA724 levels.
| Characteristics/markers | Effectiveness |
χ2 | P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR + PR | SD + PD | |||
| Sex | 0.105 | 0.746 | ||
| Male | 27 | 39 | ||
| Female | 12 | 20 | ||
| Age | 1.674 | 0.196 | ||
| ≤60 | 20 | 38 | ||
| >60 | 19 | 21 | ||
| PS | 0.909 | 0.340 | ||
| >1 | 16 | 30 | ||
| ≤1 | 23 | 29 | ||
| Regional lymph node metastasis | 2.425 | 0.119 | ||
| No | 11 | 9 | ||
| Yes | 28 | 50 | ||
| Distant metastasis | 5.718 | 0.017 | ||
| No | 15 | 10 | ||
| Yes | 24 | 49 | ||
| Histologic grade | 7.236 | 0.027 | ||
| Moderately differentiated | 12 | 8 | ||
| Poorly differentiated | 14 | 16 | ||
| Undifferentiated | 13 | 35 | ||
| CA724 (µ/mL) | 4.003 | 0.045 | ||
| ≤8.2 | 19 | 17 | ||
| >8.2 | 20 | 42 | ||
CA724, carbohydrate antigen 724.