Table 4.

Relationship between clinicopathologic parameters and the expression of HOXA10, E-cadherin in gastric cancer (n = 127)

Characteristics	N	HOXA10			E-cadherin
		+	–	P-value	+	–	P-value
Age				0.417			0.913
< 65	59	38	21		22	37
≥ 65	68	39	29		26	42
Gender				0.811			0.509
Male	72	43	29		29	43
Female	55	34	21		19	36
Location				0.956			0.226
Gastric fundus	14	9	5		8	6
Gastric corpus	53	32	21		17	36
Pylorus	60	36	24		23	37
Tumor size				0.005			0.292
< 3 cm	38	16	22		17	21
≥ 3 cm	89	61	28		31	58
UICC stage				< 0.001			0.075
I + II	56	24	32		26	30
III + IV	71	53	18		22	49
Lymph node metastasis				< 0.001			0.002
No	47	18	29		26	21
Yes	80	59	21		22	58