Table II.

Association between the expression of HOXA5 and clinical parameters of patients with gastric cancer (GC).

		HOXA5
Index	Case	+	−	χ2	P-value
Sex				0.974	0.324
Male	53	21	32
Female	28	8	20
Age (years)				0.822	0.365
<60	31	13	18
≥60	50	16	34
Histological grade				7.814	0.005b
Well-differentiated	39	20	19
Poorly-differentiated	42	9	33
Tumor size (cm)				10.65	0.001b
<5	39	21	18
≥5	42	8	34
TNM stage				2.486	0.115a
1+2	38	17	21
3+4	43	12	31
Lymph node involvement				0.510	0.475
No	24	10	14
Yes	57	19	38
Vascular invasion				2.523	0.112
Absent	16	3	13
Present	65	26	39
Distant metastasis				0.008	0.928
No	78	28	50
Yes	3	1	2

^aP<0.05

^bP<0.01; Chi-square test.