Table I.

Association of TRMP8 protein expression and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with gastric cancer (n=134).

		TRPM8 expression
Features	Number of patients	Low	High	χ2	P-value
Sex				0.030	0.863
Female	94	32	62	-	-
Male	40	13	27
Age (years)				0.113	0.737
<60	48	17	31	-	-
≥60	86	28	58
Tumor diameter (cm)				8.945	0.003
<2.5	65	30	35	-	-
≥2.5	69	15	54
Histological grade (43)				0.524	0.769
I	37	14	23	-	-
II	52	16	36
III	45	16	29
Tumor number				0.179	0.672
Single	74	26	48	-	-
Multiple	60	19	41
TNM stage (44)				14.195	0.003
I	14	8	6	-	-
II	38	19	19
III	49	13	36
IV	33	5	28
Lymph node metastasis				10.269	0.001
Yes	82	19	63
No	52	26	26
Cancer cell remote metastasis				6.668	0.010
Yes	33	5	28
No	101	40	61

TNM, tumor-node-metastases; TRMP8, transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 8.