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Table 2.

Correlation between SATB-1 and SDF-1 expression and clinicopathological characterics of PDAC patients

Characteristics	N of cases	SATB-1 level			SDF-1 level
Characteristics	N of cases	H	L	P value	H	L	P value^a
Total cases	243	172	71		141	102
Sex
Male	142	101	41	0.889	80	62	0.528
Female	101	71	30	0.889	61	40	0.528
Age
< 60	104	76	28	0.496	61	43	0.864
≥ 60	139	96	43	0.496	80	59	0.864
Differentiation
Poor	68	58	10	0.008^**	46	22	0.158
Moderate	118	78	40		65	53
Well	57	36	21		30	27
T stage
T1	4	2	2	0.003^**	2	2	0.303
T2	28	15	13		14	14
T3	176	122	54		100	76
T4	35	32	3		25	10
TNM stage (AJCC)^b
I	17	10	7	0.025^*	10	9	0.057
II	130	88	57		72	58
III	62	46	14		32	28
IV	34	28	6		27	7
Lymph node metastasis
Positive	147	119	28	0.000^**	99	48	0.000^**
Negative	96	53	43	0.000^**	42	54	0.000^**

^aChi-square test, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01

^bAmerican Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), patients were staged in accordance with the 7th Edition of the AJCC Cancer’s’ TNM Classification; N of cases number of cases, T stage tumor stage; TNM tumor node metastasis, H high, L low