Table II.

MSRB3 expression and clinical characteristics of 90 patients with gastric cancer.

		MSRB3 expression
Variable	Cases, n	Low	High	P-value
Age, years				0.731
<65	39	12	27
≥65	51	14	37
Sex				0.901
Female	20	6	14
Male	70	20	50
Maximum tumor diameter, cm				0.850
<5	30	9	21
≥5	57	16	41
Histological differentiation				0.972
Moderate-high	24	7	17
Poor	66	19	47
Depth of invasion				0.403
T1-2	11	2	9
T3-4	79	24	55
Lymph node metastasis				0.850
N0	23	7	16
N+	67	19	48
Distant metastasis				0.697
M0	86	24	62
M1	4	2	2
TNM stage				0.745
I/II	37	10	27
III/IV	53	16	37

MSRB3, methionine sulfoxide reductases B3; TNM, Tumor-Node-Metastasis; GC, gastric cancer.