Table 2.

Association of tensin and profilin-1 expression with clinical pathological parameters in ESCC

	Tensina		r, P *	Profilin-1b		r, P
	–	+		–	+
Age (years)
<58	73	2	0.115, 0.276	9	66	-0.034, 0.811
≥58	71	6		11	66
Gender
Male	108	6	0.000, 1.000	13	101	-0.090, 0.406
Female	36	2		7	31
Differentiation
G1	43	1	0.117, 0.207	3	41	-0.149, 0.063
G2	88	5		13	80
G3	13	2		4	11
Invasive depth
T2	7	1	-0.078, 0.379	1	7	0.006, 1.000
T3	136	7		19	124
T4	1	0		0	1
LN metastasisc
N0	76	1	0.180, 0.033	6	71	-0.161, 0.057
N1	68	7		14	61
pTNM stage
I/II	79	2	0.134, 0.147	6	75	-0.182, 0.031
III/IV	65	6		14	57

The Kendall’s tau-b test;

^* p value <0.05 was considered significant.

LN: lymph node.

^anegative (–), score <5; positive (+), score ≥5.

^bnegative (–), score <1; positive (+), score ≥1.