Table 1.

Association of TIPE2 expression and clinicopathological characteristics in PDAC

Characteristic	Number	TIPE2 expression		P value
		Low	High
Number of patients	74	33	41
Age (Years)
≤60	38	13	25	0.065
>60	36	20	16
Gender
Male	48	21	27	0.843
Female	26	12	14
Risk factor analysis
Smoke (yes/no)	50	10/10	10/20	0.239
Drink (yes/no)	49	9/11	11/19	0.556
Diabetes (yes/no)	50	6/14	5/25	0.265
Tumor location
Head-neck	46	21	25	0.864
Body-tail	23	10	13
Primary tumor diameter (cm)
≤4	46	16	30	0.030*
>4	28	17	11
AJCC TNM stage#
I	26	2	24	<0.001*
II-IV	48	31	17
Lymph node metastasis
Negative	45	11	34	<0.001*
Positive	29	22	7
Tumor differentiation
I-II	49	24	25	0.288
II-III	25	9	16
Neurovascular invasion
Yes	32	15	17	0.730
No	42	18	24

#The 8^th AJCC classification criteria.