Table 3.

Relationship between tertiary lymphoid structure (TLS) and clinicopathological parameters.

Clinicopathological parameters	TLS-SUM		χ2	P value	TLS-CT-D		χ2	P value	TLS-IM-N		χ2	P value
	High	Low			High	Low			High	Low
Age (year)
>50	387	403	2.389	0.122	410	380	2.091	0.148	405	385	0.057	0.811
≤ 50	70	54			73	51			65	59
Tumor size (cm)
>5	220	250	3.942	0.047	225	245	9.599	0.002	250	220	1.212	0.271
≤ 5	237	207			258	186			220	224
Lymph node metastasis
Yes	271	292	2.040	0.153	290	273	1.048	0.306	299	264	1.668	0.196
No	186	165			193	158			171	180
Vessel invasion
Yes	157	158	0.005	0.945	155	160	2.553	0.110	169	146	0.956	0.328
No	300	299			328	271			301	298
Histological grade
Well	22	20	6.512	0.039	26	16	7.396	0.025	17	25	2.795	0.247
Moderately	146	183			155	174			165	164
Poor	289	254			302	241			288	255
pTN stage
I	127	109	6.226	0.044	139	97	14.531	0.001	104	132	9.808	0.007
II	120	154			119	155			137	137
III	210	194			225	179			229	175
WHO subtypes
Tubular	296	277	24.119	<0.001	309	264	15.867	0.003	304	269	7.781	0.100
Mucinous	37	48			47	38			40	45
Papillary	9	39			13	35			16	32
Poorly cohesive	84	62			85	61			78	68
Undifferentiated	31	31			29	33			32	30

Values in bold signify p < 0.05.