Table 2.

Correlations between XRCC5 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of GC patients

Variables	N	XRCC5		χ 2	P value
		Low expression	High expression
Age
≤ 70	55	33	22	3.429	0.064
> 70	35	14	21
Gender
Male	70	34	36	1.683	0.195
Female	20	13	7
Pathological grade
I/II	24	9	15	2.843	0.092
III/IV	66	38	28
Depth of invasion
T1/T2	11	9	2	4.399	0.036
T3/T4	79	38	41
Lymph node metastases
N0	23	14	9	0.926	0.336
N1/N2/N3	67	33	34
Distant metastasis
M0	86	46	40	1.243	0.265
M1	4	1	3
TNM stage
I/II	37	24	13	4.025	0.045
III/IV	53	23	30

XRCC5 X-ray repair cross-complementing 5, GC gastric cancer