Table 1. Relationships between clinicopathological features and ANO9 mRNA expression in colorectal cancer.

Variables	N	ANO9 expression		Pa value
		High (n=37)	Low (n=27)
Age				0.223
<80	57	31	26
≥80	7	6	1
Sex				1
Male	40	23	17
Female	24	14	10
Size				0.314
≤5cm	35	18	17
>5cm	29	19	10
Grading				0.460
Well	15	9	6
Moderate	39	24	15
Poor	10	4	6
Type				0.233
Non-mucin-producing cancer	50	31	19
Mucin-producing cancer	14	6	8
Location of tumor				0.429
Colon	22	11	11
Rectum	42	26	16
Recurrence				<0.001*
Yes	34	9	27
No	30	28	0
TNM stage				0.010*
II	27	21	6
III	37	16	21
Lymphovascular invasion				0.576
Yes	17	11	6
No	47	26	21
Perineural invasion				0.072
Yes	14	5	9
No	50	32	18

^aP value are obtained from χ² test

^*Statistically significant, P<0.05