Table 3.

Correlations between clinicopathological features of tumor and serum levels of proteins testes in patients with oesophageal cancer

	Age	TNM	T	G	Tumor length	CXCL-8	CRP	CEA	SCC-Ag
Age
r	1.00	− 0.03	0.06	0.06	− 0.09	0.07	− 0.10	− 0.17	− 0.24
p		> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05
TNM
r	− 0.03	1.00	0.80	0.27	0.67	0.27	0.25	0.05	0.31
p	> 0.5		< 0.001	> 0.05	< 0.001	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	0.03
T
r	0.06	0.80	1.00	0.29	0.61	0.36	0.35	0.10	0.15
p	> 0.05	< 0.001		0.04	< 0.001	0.01	0.01	> 0.05	> 0.05
G
r	0.06	0.27	0.29	1.00	0.35	0.22	0.24	− 0.11	0.14
p	> 0.05	> 0.05	0.04		0.01	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05
Tumor length
r	− 0.09	0.67	0.61	0.35	1.00	0.18	0.22	0.06	0.04
p	> 0.05	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.01		> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05
CXCL-8
r	0.07	0.27	0.36	0.22	0.18	1.00	0.41	0.11	0.15
p	> 0.05	> 0.05	0.01	> 0.05	> 0.05		0.01	> 0.05	> 0.05
CRP
r	− 0.10	0.25	0.35	0.24	0.22	0.41	1.00	0.17	0.32
p	> 0.05	> 0.05	0.01	> 0.05	> 0.05	0.01		> 0.05	0.03
CEA
r	− 0.17	0.05	0.10	− 0.11	0.06	0.11	0.17	1.00	0.21
p	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05		> 0.05
SCC-Ag
r	− 0.24	0.31	0.15	0.14	0.04	0.15	0.32	0.21	1.00
p	> 0.05	0.03	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	> 0.05	0.03	> 0.05