Table 3.
Univariate analysis of β-actin immunostaining with clinicopathological parameters n (%)
| Clinicopathological parameters | Groups | Epithelial cells (total IHC score) | Inflammatory cells (total IHC score) | Epithelial + Inflammatory cells (avg. total IHC score) | |
| P value | P value | P value | |||
| Age (yr) | |||||
| ≤ 50 | 11 (42) | 0.49331 | 0.27241 | 0.29411 | |
| > 50 | 15 (58) | ||||
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 20 (77) | 0.97211 | 0.27241 | 0.52751 | |
| Female | 6 (23) | ||||
| Tumor grade | |||||
| WD | 0 (0) | 0.60892 | 0.01682 | 0.83932 | |
| MD | 4 (15) | ||||
| PD | 14 (54) | ||||
| Mucinous | 0 (0) | ||||
| SRC | 8 (31) | ||||
| Depth of invasion3 | |||||
| T1 | 2 (8) | 0.54462 | 0.66182 | 0.88042 | |
| T2 | 2 (8) | ||||
| T3 | 13 (52) | ||||
| T4 | 8 (32) | ||||
| Lymph Node status3 | |||||
| N0 | 6 (24) | 0.75102 | 0.62932 | 0.54262 | |
| N1 | 8 (32) | ||||
| N2 | 8 (32) | ||||
| N3 | 3 (12) | ||||
| Treatment Modality3 | |||||
| Surgery | 14 (56) | 0.35421 | 0.81351 | 0.29101 | |
| NACT + surgery | 11 (44) |
1
Mann Whitney Test;
2
Kruskal Wallis Test;
3
TNM staging and Treatment modality information was available for only 25 (out of 26) patients. P < 0.05 indicates statistically significant difference. IHC: Immunohistochemistry; MD: Moderately differentiated; PD: Poorly differentiated; SRC: Signet ring cell carcinoma.