. 2018 Jun 1;18:621. doi: 10.1186/s12885-018-4326-5

Table 1.

Clinicopathological correlation of Slit3 expression in HCC patients

		Slit3 overexpression (T/N)		p-value
		low	high	p-value
Age	< 55	10	7	0.523
Age	> = 55	10	13	0.523
Gender	Male	19	15	0.182
Gender	Female	1	5	0.182
HBV infection^a	No	3	3	1.000
HBV infection^a	Yes	15	16	1.000
Prior liver-directed treatments^a	No	17	18	0.345
Prior liver-directed treatments^a	Yes	4	1	0.345
Differentiation^a	Well	3	5	0.682
Differentiation^a	Moderate/Poor	11	10	0.682
Cirrhosis^a	No	14	10	0.313
Cirrhosis^a	Yes	5	8	0.313
Tumor Size	<=5	3	9	0.048
Tumor Size	> 5	17	11	0.048
Microvascular invasion^a	No	10	13	0.741
Microvascular invasion^a	Yes	8	7	0.741
Stage^a	1 to 2	9	11	1.000
Stage^a	3 to 4	9	9	1.000
Distant metastasis^a	No	9	12	1.000
Distant metastasis^a	Yes	8	9	1.000

^aIn some categories, the total number of patients was less than 40 due to incomplete information