Table 2.

Distribution of WWC3 status in gastric cancer according to clinicopathological characteristics

Characteristics	Number of patients	WWC3 low expression	WWC3 high expression	P-value
Age (years)				0.8437
<60	52	23	29
≥60	59	25	34
Gender				0.8848
Male	84	36	48
Female	27	12	15
Differentiation				0.6412
Poor	55	25	30
Well-moderate	56	23	33
Tumor invasion (T)				0.0864
T1+T2	40	13	27
T3+T4	71	35	36
Lymph node metastasis				0.0076
Absent	41	11	30
Present	70	37	33
TNM stage				0.0005
I+II	51	13	38
III	60	35	25
Relapse				0.0109
Negative	40	10	30
Positive	55	28	27

Abbreviation: TNM, tumor, node, metastases.