Table 1. Correlation between HSF1 Expression and Clinicopathological Parameters in Gastric Cancer.

Characteristic	HSF1 in tumor tissues
	Low (n=35)	High (n=19)	p value*
Sex			0.533
Male	26	12
Female	9	7
Age (yr)			1
<60	16	8
≥60	19	11
Differentiation			0.935
Well	15	7
Moderately	9	5
Poorly	11	7
LN metastasis			0.134
Positive	19	15
Negative	16	4
Lauren's classification			0.766
Intestinal	24	12
Diffuse	11	7
T classification			0.327
T1	12	4
T2	5	1
T3	11	11
T4	7	3
TNM stage			0.095
I	14	3
II	8	5
III	13	9
V	0	2

^*Fisher's exact test was used to analyse the significance of the associations between Tumor groups and each characterisitcs.

HSF1, heat shock factor 1; LN, lymph node.

HSF1 high-expression (scored 3) and low-expression (scored 1 and 2) groups.