Table 2.

Association between SERPINE and SPARC expression and clinicopathologic characteristics of gastric cancers

Characteristics	N	SERPINE1		P-value	SPARC		P-value
		Low expression	High expression		Low expression	High expression
Age				0.94			0.41
<60	110	54	56		59	51
≥60	255	128	127		123	132
Gender				0.91			0.17
Female	133	66	67		73	60
Male	235	118	117		110	125
Race				0.01			0.09
Asian	73	46	27		42	31
White	235	106	129		106	129
Pathologic stage				0.09			0.07
I + II	215	116	99		116	99
III + IV	153	68	85		67	86