Table III.

Clinical association between D-dimer level and clinicopathological variables of pancreatic cancer patients.

		Cases with low and high D-dimer level, n (%)
Characteristic	Cases (n=37)	Low	High	P-value
Age, years				1
≥60	23	10 (43.5)	13 (56.5)
<60	14	6 (42.9)	8 (57.1)
Gender				1
Male	22	10 (45.5)	12 (54.5)
Female	15	6 (40.0)	9 (60.0)
Metastasis				0.5541
Positive	34	13 (38.2)	21 (61.8)
Negative	3	2 (66.7)	1 (33.3)
TNM stage				0.0395
I&II	14	8 (57.1)	6 (42.9)
III&IV	23	5 (21.7)	18 (78.3)

TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.