Table 1.

Correlations between DUSP5 expression and clinicopathological Characteristics

Characteristics	Total	DUSP5 expression		P value
		High	Low
Gender
Male	219	90	129	0.521
Female	150	67	83
Age
≤60	170	67	103	0.291
>60	199	90	109
Tumor location
Colon	174	82	92	0.114
Rectal	195	75	120
Tumor differentiation
Well/moderate	217	102	115	0.042
Poor	152	55	97
Tumor size
≤5 cm	205	92	113	0.341
>5 cm	164	65	99
TNM stage
II	184	98	86	<0.001
III and IV	185	59	126
Tumor invasion
T1-T2	41	16	25	0.738
T3-T4	328	141	187
Lymph node metastasis
Absent	188	99	89	<0.001
Present	181	58	123
Distant metastasis
Absent	323	146	177	0.007
Present	46	11	35