Table 1. Patients characteristics and HCRP-1 expression.
| Variables | HCRP-1 staining |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative (%) | Positive (%) | Total | P* | |
| All cases | 38 (42.2) | 52 (57.8) | 90 | |
| Age | ||||
| ≤57 years | 15 (39.5) | 23 (60.5) | 38 | 0.672 |
| >57years | 23 (44.2) | 29 (55.8) | 52 | |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 26 (45.1) | 25 (54.9) | 51 | 0.084 |
| Female | 12 (38.5) | 27 (61.5) | 39 | |
| Tumor size | ||||
| ≤7 cm | 25 (43.1) | 33 (56.9) | 58 | 0.665 |
| >7 cm | 13 (40.6) | 19 (59.4) | 32 | |
| Grade | ||||
| G1 | 15 (35.6) | 30 (64.4) | 45 | 0.002 |
| G2 | 10 (35.7) | 18 (64.3) | 28 | |
| G3 | 12 (68.8) | 4 (31.2) | 16 | |
| G4 | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 | |
| pT status | ||||
| pT1 | 25 (41.0) | 36 (59.0) | 61 | 0.001 |
| pT2 | 8 (38.1) | 13 (61.9) | 21 | |
| pT3 | 5 (62.5) | 3 (37.5) | 8 | |
| TNM stage | ||||
| I | 21 (35.0) | 39 (65.0) | 60 | 0.003 |
| II | 7 (43.8) | 9 (56.2) | 16 | |
| III | 7 (70.0) | 3 (30.0) | 10 | |
| IV | 3 (75.0) | 1 (25.0) | 4 | |
*P values are obtained from χ2 test.