Table 1.

Correlation of clinicopathologic variables with fascin-1 protein in NSCLC

Variables	N	Fascin-1 expression
		High	Low	χ2	P-value
Age (years)				0.634	0.426
<60	74	40	34
≥60	54	33	21
Sex				0.005	0.941
Male	74	42	32
Female	54	31	23
Smoking history				2.279	0.131
Yes	60	30	30
No	68	43	25
Histological type				0.347	0.556
SCC	73	40	33
AD	55	33	22
Differentiation				2.114	0.347
Well	28	19	9
Moderate	62	35	27
Poor	38	19	19
Tumor size (cm)				0.006	0.938
≤3	60	34	26
>3	68	39	29
Lymph node metastasis				5.274	0.022
N0	55	25	30
N1 + N2	73	48	25
TNM stage				4.135	0.042
Stage I	39	17	22
Stage II + III	89	56	33

Abbreviations: SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; AD, adenocarcinoma; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer.