Table 1. Patient characteristics of biopsies used for Western blot, IHC and Q-RT-PCR analysis.

Number	Sex	Age (Years)	TNM stage
EAC 1	M	59	T3N4	WB and IHC
EAC 2	M	49	T3N2	WB and Q-RT-PCR
EAC 3	M	73	T2N0	WB, IHC and Q-RT-PCR
EAC 4	M	65	T2N0	WB, IHC and Q-RT-PCR
EAC 5	M	80	T2N1	WB, IHC and Q-RT-PCR
EAC 6	M	42	T3N1	WB, IHC and Q-RT-PCR
EAC 7	M	81	T1N0	IHC
EAC 8	M	57	T1N1M0	IHC
EAC 9	M	68	T2N0M0	IHC
EAC 10	F	39	T3N0M0	IHC
EAC 11	M	67	T3N1	IHC
EAC 12	M	69	T3N1M1a	IHC
EAC 13	M	69	T3N0M0	IHC
EAC 14	M	72	T4N1M1a	IHC and Q-RT-PCR
EAC 15	M	61	T2N0	Q-RT-PCR
EAC 16	M	79	T3N2	Q-RT-PCR
EAC 17	M	70	T3N1M0	Q-RT-PCR
EAC 18	M	47	T3N1M1a	Q-RT-PCR

M = male, F = female, WB = Western blot, IHC = Immunohistochemistry, Q-RT-PCR = Quantitative Real Time PCR.