Table 2.

Clinical and histopathological characteristics of gastric cancer patients

Characteristics	LNM-positive (n = 60）	LNM-negative (n = 45)	p-value
Age, years (mean ± SD)	64.32 ± 9.44	63.33 ± 9.28	0.596
Gender			0.459
Male	44 (73.3)	30 (66.7)
Female	16 (26.7)	15 (33.3)
Lauren classification			0.098
Intestinal	21 (35.0)	23 (51.1)
Diffuse/Mixed	39 (65.0)	22 (48.9)
Tumor differentiation			0.003
Well or moderate	13 (21.7)	22 (48.9)
Poor	47 (78.3)	23 (51.1)

SD, standard deviation.

Data in parentheses are percentages.