Table II.
Correlation between Livin expression and clinicopathological characteristics.
| Livin expression | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | High | Low | Total | rs | P-value |
| Sex | −0.059 | 0.579 | |||
| Female | 25 | 16 | 41 | ||
| Male | 27 | 22 | 49 | ||
| Age (years) | −0.104 | 0.327 | |||
| ≤60 | 26 | 15 | 41 | ||
| >60 | 26 | 23 | 49 | ||
| Grade | 0.161 | 0.129 | |||
| 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | ||
| 2 | 43 | 27 | 70 | ||
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 8 | ||
| T stage | 0.087 | 0.413 | |||
| T1 | 9 | 8 | 17 | ||
| T2 | 28 | 22 | 50 | ||
| T3 | 11 | 6 | 17 | ||
| T4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||
| N stage | 0.239 | 0.023a | |||
| N0 | 19 | 23 | 42 | ||
| N1 | 16 | 8 | 24 | ||
| N2 | 12 | 6 | 18 | ||
| N3 | 5 | 1 | 6 | ||
| M stage | 0.033 | 0.755 | |||
| M0 | 50 | 37 | 87 | ||
| M1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| TNM stage | 0.175 | 0.099 | |||
| I | 16 | 15 | 31 | ||
| II | 11 | 13 | 24 | ||
| III | 23 | 9 | 32 | ||
| IV | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
a
Statistically significant (p<0.05). TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.