Table 3. Relationship between the expression of VEGF and CD73 and clinical stages of RCC (n).
Items | n | VEGF | CD73 | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
− | + | ++ | +++ | − | + | ++ | +++ | |||
Clinical stages | ||||||||||
I–II | 50 | 23 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 4 | |
III–IV | 26 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 9 | |
Z | – | 3.430 | 3.571 | |||||||
P | – | 0.001 | 0.000 |
VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor; RCC, renal cell carcinoma.