Table 1.

Correlation between tumor NRP1 expression and clinicopathologic features of the gastric cancer cases

Factors	n	NRP1 expression		P value
		High (%)	Low (%)
Age, years				0.2424
<60	137	74	63
≥60	73	46	27
Gender				0.4768
Male	126	69	57
Female	84	51	33
Tumor size (cm)				< 0.0001
≤5	114	34	80
>5	96	86	10
Tumor location				0.8839
Distal	104	58	46
Body	56	32	24
Proximal	50	30	20
Differentiation				0.3174
High	8	3	5
Moderate	40	19	21
Poor	116	70	46
Other	46	28	18
AJCC TNM stage				< 0.0001
I	44	6	38
II	43	16	27
III	96	74	22
IV	27	24	3
Depth of invasion				< 0.0001
T1	40	2	38
T2	18	5	13
T3	42	23	19
T4	110	90	20
Lymph node metastasis				< 0.0001
N0	58	13	45
N1	43	17	26
N2	38	25	13
N3	71	65	6
Distant metastasis				< 0.0001
Absent (M0)	183	95	88
Present (M1)	27	25	2
CEA (preoperative) (ng/ml)				0.2925
≤5	71	37	34
>5	139	83	56