Table 1.

The relationship between the ZEB1 protein expression and clinicopathological features in colon cancer

Clinicopathological features		n	ZEB1 expression (118)
			High (79)	Low (39)	P
Age (years)	≤60	58	38	20	0.448
	>60	60	41	19
Sex	Male	62	42	20	0.501
	Female	56	37	19
Tumor size (mm)	≤50	72	47	25	0.391
	>50	46	32	14
Location	Proximal	57	35	22	0.149
	Distal	61	44	17
Depth of invasion	T1-2	86	55	31	0.013
	T3-4	32	24	8
Differentiation	Well-Mod	85	53	32	0.066
	Poor	33	26	7
Lymph node metastasis	N0 N1-N2	42 76	23 56	19 20	0.030
CEA (μg/μL)	≤5	79	53	26	0.561
	>5	39	26	13