Table II.

Correlation between local expression of hepcidin and clinicopathological characteristics.

	Local expression of hepcidin in tumor tissues
Characteristics	Number of negative cases	Number of positive cases	χ2	P-value	Spearman's correlation coefficient	P-value
Age, years			0.172	0.678	0.053	0.684
≤60	13	15
>60	14	20
Gender			0.051	0.822	−0.029	0.826
Male	17	23
Female	10	12
T stages			6.984	0.008a	0.336	0.008a
T1 and T2	15	8
T3 and T4	12	27
Lymph node metastasis			0.412	0.521	0.081	0.529
Negative	13	14
Positive	14	21
Other metastasis			0.447	0.503	0.085	0.512
Negative	24	29
Positive	3	6
Anemia			1.821	0.177	0.171	0.183
Negative	17	16
Positive	10	19

^aP<0.01.