Table III.
Association between clinicopathological characteristics and COL1A1 expression in 100 patients with colon cancer.
| COL1A1 expression | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Total number | Low (n=57) | High (n=43) | P-value |
| Age, years | 0.437 | |||
| <50 | 33 | 17 | 16 | |
| ≥50 | 67 | 40 | 27 | |
| Sex | 0.752 | |||
| Male | 54 | 30 | 24 | |
| Female | 46 | 27 | 19 | |
| Distant metastasis | 0.004 | |||
| Absent | 71 | 47 | 24 | |
| Present | 29 | 10 | 19 | |
| Lymph node invasion | <0.001 | |||
| Absent | 59 | 43 | 16 | |
| Present | 41 | 14 | 27 | |
| Differentiation | 0.639 | |||
| High | 32 | 17 | 15 | |
| Moderate | 35 | 19 | 16 | |
| Low | 33 | 21 | 12 | |
| TNM stage | 0.005 | |||
| I–II | 58 | 40 | 18 | |
| III–IV | 42 | 17 | 25 | |
COL1A1, collagen type I α1.