TABLE IV.

Relationships of the expression levels of epithelial– mesenchymal transition–related molecules with clinical factors in lung adenocarcinoma

Characteristic	Expression type				p Value
	EC+, V+	EC+, V−	EC−, V+	EC−, V−
TNM stage					0.007
I	14	1	0	1
II	4	2	0	0
III	16	7	2	3
IV	10	9	0	11
Driver mutation					0.47
EGFR	23	9	2	9
ALK	1	2	0	2
EGFR and ALK	2	0	0	0
Wild type	18	8	0	4

EC = E-cadherin (+, positive; −, negative); V = vimentin (+, positive; −, negative).