Table 1.
Clinicopathological characteristics of the enrolled subjects used in this study.
| Characteristics | Gallstones (GS) |
Non-Metastatic PC (M0) | Metastatic PC (M1) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (For Discovery Experiment, n = 30) | - | - | - | |
| Gender | Female | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| Male | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Age (years) a | 62.9 ± 11.0 | 61.5 ± 9.8 | 59.9 ± 9.3 | |
| Tumor size (T) | T3 | - | 4 | 4 |
| T4 | - | 6 | 6 | |
| Lymph node metastasis (N) | Yes | - | 8 | 8 |
| No | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Distant metastasis (M) | Yes | - | 0 | 10 |
| No | - | 10 | 0 | |
| Stage | I–II | - | 4 | 0 |
| III–IV | - | 6 | 10 | |
| (Total enrolled subjects, n = 121) | - | - | - | |
| Gender | Female | 29 | 12 | 12 |
| Male | 21 | 15 | 32 | |
| Age (years) | 54.4 ± 13.2 | 61.3 ± 12.2 | 62.4 ± 9.9 | |
| Tumor size (T) | T1 | - | 1 | 0 |
| T2 | - | 1 | 4 | |
| T3 | - | 15 | 23 | |
| T4 | - | 10 | 16 | |
| Lymph node metastasis (N) | Yes | - | 21 | 37 |
| No | - | 6 | 7 | |
| Distant metastasis (M) | Yes | - | 0 | 44 |
| No | - | 27 | 0 | |
| Stage | I–II | - | 17 | 0 |
| III–IV | - | 10 | 44 | |
a Data are shown in mean ± standard deviation (SD).