Table 1.

Clinicopathologic information of patients with advanced gastric cancer

Characteristic	LowN samples		HighN samples
	A	B	C	D	E
Gender	Male	Female	Male	Male	Female
Age (yr)	66	63	69	53	66
Differentiation	Poorly	Moderately	Poorly	Poorly	Poorly
	differentiated	differentiated	differentiated	differentiated	differentiated
Lauren classification	Diffuse	Intestinal	Diffuse	Diffuse	Diffuse
Tumor size (cm)	2.5	7.8	5.5	7.5	11
Location of tumor epicenter	Middle third	Lower third	Lower third	Upper third	Upper third
No. of metastatic LN	0	0	38	37	48
No. of examined LN	26	95	97	52	63
T stage	T4	T4	T3	T3	T3
N stage	N0	N0	N3	N3	N3
M stage	M0	M0	M0	Ml	M1
Share of tumor cells (%)	80	80	90	60	80
Histology of corresponding normal mucosa	Fundic	Chronic gastritis	Fundic	Fundic	Gastritis

LN, lymph nodes.