Table 1.
Correlation between MECOM and clinicopathologic factors
| Parameters | Number (%) | MECOM
|
P-value* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | High | |||
| Age | ||||
| ≤50 | 48 (55.8) | 30 | 18 | 0.357 |
| >50 | 38 (44.2) | 20 | 18 | |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 48 (55.8) | 25 | 23 | 0.199 |
| Female | 38 (44.2) | 25 | 13 | |
| KPS | ||||
| <80 | 28 (32.6) | 16 | 12 | 0.896 |
| ≥80 | 58 (67.4) | 34 | 24 | |
| Extent of resection | ||||
| Complete | 44 (51.2) | 28 | 16 | 0.29 |
| Incomplete | 42 (48.8) | 22 | 20 | |
| MECOM | ||||
| Low | 50 (58.1) | – | – | – |
| High | 36 (41.9) | – | – | |
Note:
*
Significance calculated by chi-square test.
Abbreviations: KPS, Karnofsky Performance Scale; MECOM, MDS1 and EVI1 complex locus protein EVI1.