Table 3. SOX2 expressions and clinicopathological characteristics of GC.

Clinical and pathological data	Case number	SOX2		Positive rate (%)	P
		Negative	Positive
Age (year)
< 60	28	19	9	32.14	0.397
≥ 60	32	25	7	21.88
Sex
male	29	23	6	20.69	0.387
female	31	21	10	32.26
Tumor location
Near the pylorus	33	25	8	24.24	0.771
Near the cardia	27	19	8	29.63
Differentiation degree
Moderately to well differentiated	36	22	14	38.89	0.015
Poorly to non-differentiated	24	22	2	8.33
LNM
without metastasis	33	18	15	45.45	2.745E-4
with metastasis	27	26	1	3.70
TNM staging
I/II staging	30	16	14	46.67	4.596E-4
III/IV staging	30	28	2	6.67

GC, gastric cancer.