Table 1. Clinicopathological characteristics and E-cadherin expression in pancreatic cancer patients stratified by RAB5 expression.

Factors	RAB5expression
	Low (n=50)	High (n=61)	p-value
Age			0.902
<70	26	31
≧70	24	30
Gender			0.812
male	29	34
female	21	27
Histology type			0.107
well	9	6
mod,por	30	50
Tumor size stage			0.088
TS1,2	34	50
TS3,4	16	11
Tumor stage			0.505
T1-3	31	34
T4	19	27
Lymph node metastasis			0.135
N0	17	13
N1	33	48
Lymphatic invasion			0.012*
ly0	5	0
ly1,2,3	45	60
Venous invasion			0.019*
v0	8	2
v1,2,3	42	58
Peri-neural invasion			0.060
ne0,1	19	13
ne2,3	31	47
Infiltration			0.068
α	2	0
β	37	37
γ	11	23
pStage(UICC)			0.088
I,IIA	17	12
IIB,III,IV	33	49
Recurrence			0.805
absent	35	44
present	15	17
E-cadherin expression			0.010*
high	35	28
low	15	33

*p<0.05.

well: well differentiated, mod: moderately differentiated, por: poorly differentiated.