Table 1.

Association between TIPE2 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with rectal adenocarcinoma (n = 86)

Characteristics	Cases	TIPE2 expression		P value
		Low	High
Age (years)				0.976
≤44	5	3	2
45‐59	27	15	12
≥60	54	19	35
Gender				0.930
Male	56	21	35
Female	30	16	14
Tumour size (cm)				0.259
≤3	8	1	7
>3	78	36	42
Disease grade				0.047
I	2	1	1
II	55	16	39
III	29	20	9
T classification				0.277
T1	1	1	0
T2	10	5	5
T3	70	30	40
T4	5	1	4
Lymph node status				0.873
N0	47	20	27
N1、N2	39	17	22
Metastasis				0.753
M0	82	35	47
M1	4	2	2