Table 1.

VEGF-C^* expression by immunostaining in rectal cancer and normal adjacent tissue

Types	Cases	VEGF-C				Positive rate (%)	P-value
		-	+	++	+++
Rectal cancer	40	11	12	9	8	72.5	0.00025
Para-carcinoma tissue	40	35	4	1	0	12.5

^*Vascular endothelial growth factor-C.