Table II.

Association between Z38 and clinical variables among 100 gastric cancer patients.

		Expression of Z38
Variable	No.	Low (n=40)	High (n=60)	P-value
Age, years				0.526
<40	18	7	11
40–50	28	16	12
>50	54	27	27
Sex				0.094
Male	62	29	33
Female	38	11	27
Presenting symptoms
Painless lump	46	21	25	0.159
Painful lump	48	15	33
Atypical symptoms	6	4	2
T, cm				<0.001a
T1 (≤2)	34	21	13
T2 (>2 and <5)	26	12	14
T3 (≥5)	22	6	16
T4 (any size with distant metastasis)	18	1	17
N				<0.001a
N0	44	28	16
N1 or above	56	12	44
Distant metastasis (M)				0.023a
M0	45	24	21
M1	55	16	39
TNM stage				0.008a
I/II	42	19	23
III/IV	58	11	47

^aP<0.05. T, tumor size; N, lymph node metastasis; M, distant metastasis; TNM, Tumor-Node-Metastasis.