Table 3.

Correlation between pathological factors and VEGF-C expression in 80 primary gastric cancers

Pathological factors	No. of cases	VEGF-C mRNA	P
		(mean ± SD)
Histological type
Moderately-Poorly	51	0.485 ± 0.345	P = 0.032
differential
Highly differential	29	0.200 ± 0.290
Lymph node metastasis
Positive	54	0.579 ± 0.290	P = 0.024
Negative	26	0.282 ± 0.314
Serosal invasion
Positive	59	0.567 ± 0.268	P = 0.219
Negative	21	0.390 ± 0.330