Table 1.

Correlation between PGM1 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of 40 GC patients

Characteristics	Case number	High (n = 20)	Low (n = 20)	P value
Age at surgery (years)				0.749
< 60	23	11	12
≥ 60	17	9	8
Gender				0.288
Male	29	13	16
Female	11	7	4
pT stagea				0.038
pT1 + pT2	13	3	9
pT3 + pT4	27	17	11
Tumor size (cm)				0.337
< 5	23	10	13
≥ 5	17	10	7
Location				0.749
Cardiac	17	9	8
Non-cardiac	23	11	12
pTNM stageb				0.025
I + II	17	5	12
III + IV	23	15	8
Differentiation				0.230
Poorly	37	20	17
Well	3	0	3

^apTstage pathological tumor stage, ^bpTNM stage pathological tumor node metastasis stage