Table 1.
Correlation between clinicopathological background and protein of FIBULIN-1 expression in 133 cases of colorectal cancer
| FIBULIN-1 expression | |||||
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| N | Low expression (%) | High expression (%) | P-value | ||
| Total | 133 | ||||
| Gender | Male | 78 | 28 (35.9) | 50 (64.1) | 0.375 |
| Female | 55 | 24 (43.6) | 31 (56.4) | ||
| Age | |||||
| ≥ 62 | 67 | 29 (43.3) | 38 (56.7) | 0.376 | |
| < 62 | 66 | 23 (34.8) | 43 (56.2) | ||
| Histopathological grading | |||||
| Well/moderately | 114 | 43 (37.7) | 71 (62.3) | 0.075 | |
| Poorly | 19 | 9 (47.4) | 10 (52.6) | ||
| pT categories | |||||
| pT1 | 6 | 1 (16.7) | 5 (83.3) | 0.702 | |
| pT2 | 24 | 9 (37.5) | 15 (62.5) | ||
| pT3 | 98 | 40 (40.8) | 58 (59.2) | ||
| pT4 | 5 | 2 (40) | 3 (60) | ||
| pN categories | |||||
| pN0 | 66 | 16 (24.2) | 50 (75.8) | 0.000 | |
| pN1/2/3 | 67 | 36 (53.7) | 31 (46.3) | ||
| pM categories | |||||
| pM0 | 118 | 41 (34.7) | 77 (65.3) | 0.004 | |
| pM1 | 15 | 11 (73.3) | 4 (26.7) | ||
| Dukes stage | |||||
| A+B | 64 | 14 (21.9) | 50 (78.1) | 0.000 | |
| C+D | 69 | 38 (55.1) | 31 (44.9) | ||