Table 1.

Association between MUC20 expression with clinicopathologic characteristics of PDAC

Characteristics	MUC20 expression (n a )		P value b
	Low	High
Age (years)			0.548
≤60	7	9
>60	15	30
Gender			0.173
Male	17	23
Female	5	16
Differentiated grades			0.342
Better	19	29
Poor	3	10
Lymph node metastasis			0.416
No	11	14
Yes	11	25
Distant metastasis			0.588
No	9	13
Yes	13	26
AJCC stages			0.251
Early stagec	10	12
Late stage	12	27
Local recurrence			0.026*
No	9	6
Yes	13	33
Adjuvant therapy			0.426
No	14	20
Yes	8	19

^anumber of case

^bChi-square test

^cearly stage indicates AJCC stage IB and IIA; late stage indicates ATCC stage IIB, III, and IV

^*P < 0.05