Table 1.

Correlation between PLACT1 expression and clinicopathologic characteristics of PDAC patients^a

Characteristics	N of cases	PLACT1 expression level
		High	Low	p-value
Total cases	166	83	83
Age				0.425
≤ 60	64	29	35
> 60	102	54	48
Gender				0.532
Male	93	44	49
Female	73	39	34
Differentiation				0.788
Well	29	15	14
Moderately	106	51	55
Poor	31	17	14
T stage				0.164
T1	50	22	28
T2	48	20	28
T3	57	35	22
T4	11	6	5
TNM stage (AJCC) b				0.008**
Stage I	40	12	28
Stage II	78	41	37
Stage III	48	30	18
Lymphatic metastasis				0.011*
Negative	67	25	42
Positive	99	58	41

Abbreviations: N of cases number of cases, T stage tumor stage, TNM tumor node metastasis.

^a Chi-square test, ^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01

^b American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), patients were staged in accordance with the 8th Edition of the AJCC Cancer’s TNM Classification