Table 1.

MUC3A expression and demographic and clinicopathological characteristics

	MUC3a		N	p-value
	low	high
Gender
Male	38	13	51	0.300
Female	35	6	41
	73	19
Age
≤ 60	37	1	38	0.000
> 60	36	18	54
Tumor size (cm)
< 4	33	12	45	0.623
≥ 4	23	11	34
None	7	6
Histological grade
I/I-II	5	2	7	0.039
II	43	7	50
II-III/III	22	9	31
I-III	3	1	4
Clinical Stage
I	20	3	23	0.045
II	15	3	18
III-IV	18	8	26
Non	18	7	25
Lymph node status
< 4	23	2	25	0.149
≥ 4	48	12	60
Non	2	5	7
Carcinoma
Primary	73	19	92
Adjacent	89	0	89
ALK	67	17	84	0.111
positive	61	13	74
negative	6	4	10
Non	6	2	8
EGFR	73	19	92	0.553
positive	17	4	21
negative	56	15	71