Table 1.
Correlation between expression of COX-2 and iNOS/p53 and clinicopathological factors in gastric MALT lym-phoma (n, %)
| Variable | Total | COX-2 | COX-2 | P value | |
| positive | negative | ||||
| Gender | Male | 22 | 15 (68.2) | 7 (31.8) | 0.918 |
| Female | 10 | 7 (70.0) | 3 (30.0) | ||
| Age (yr) | ≤ 5 0 | 9 | 6 (66.7) | 3 (33.3) | 0.874 |
| > 50 | 23 | 16 (69.6) | 7 (30.4) | ||
| Lymph node | + | 10 | 8 (80.0) | 2 (20.0) | 0.355 |
| Metastasis | - | 22 | 14 (63.6) | 8 (36.4) | |
| Histological | Low | 23 | 14 (60.7) | 9 (39.1) | 0.124 |
| Grade | High | 9 | 8 (88.9) | 1 (11.1) | |
| Histological | I + II | 22 | 16 (72.7) | 6 (27.3) | 0.472 |
| Stage | III + IV | 10 | 6 (60.0) | 4 (40.0) | |
| INOS | + | 17 | 15 (88.2) | 2 (11.8) | 0.011 |
| - | 15 | 7 (46.7) | 8 (53.3) | ||
| p53 | + | 19 | 16 (84.2) | 3 (15.8) | 0.022 |
| - | 13 | 6 (46.2) | 7 (53.8) | ||