Table 2.
Relationship between the expression of Tim-3 and the clinicopathological features of pancreatic cancer.
| Parameter | Group | No. | Tim-3 |
χ2 | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (+) | (−) | |||||
| Gender | Male | 30 | 21 | 9 | 0.149 | .700 |
| Female | 20 | 15 | 5 | |||
| Age | ≥50 | 40 | 30 | 10 | 0.304 | .581 |
| <50 | 10 | 6 | 4 | |||
| History of smoking | Yes | 34 | 28 | 6 | 4.158 | .041 |
| No | 16 | 8 | 8 | |||
| Fasting blood glucose (mmol/L) | <6.1 | 38 | 31 | 7 | 5.363 | .021 |
| ≥6.1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | |||
| Tumor size (cm) | >2 | 23 | 21 | 2 | 7.873 | .005 |
| ≤2 | 27 | 15 | 12 | |||
| Tumor location | Head of pancreas | 35 | 27 | 8 | 0.304 | .581 |
| Non-head of pancreas | 15 | 9 | 6 | |||
| TNM stage | III-IV | 12 | 5 | 9 | 10.322 | .001 |
| I-II | 38 | 31 | 5 | |||
| Pathological type | Ductal adenocarcinoma other | 46 | 35 | 11 | 2.567 | .109 |
| 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Degree of tumor differentiation | Moderately and poorly differentiated | 45 | 34 | 11 | 1.334 | .248 |
| Well differentiated | 5 | 2 | 3 | |||
| CA199 (μ/ml) | >37 | 40 | 33 | 7 | 8.488 | .004 |
| <37 | 10 | 3 | 7 | |||