Table 1.

Correlation between LRG1 expression and clinicopathological parameters of CRC.

Clinicopathologic features	Number	LRG1 expression(IHC)
		High	Low	p value
Gender
Male	89	44	45	0.776
Female	52	27	25
Age(years)
<65	77	40	37	0.678
≥65	64	31	33
Tumor size(cm)
<5	19	5	14	0.024
≥5	122	66	56
Degree of differentiation
Highly	23	9	14	0.239
Moderately and poorly	118	62	56
Depth of invasion
T1 + T2	27	9	18	0.049
T3 + T4	114	62	52
Lymphonodus metastasis
N0	74	31	43	0.035
N1, N2	67	40	27
Distance metastasis
Negative	118	55	63	0.044
Positive	23	16	7
Plasma CEA level (preoperative)
≤5ng/ml	84	33	51	0.013
>5ng/ml	42	27	15
Plasma CA19-9 level (preoperative)
≤37u/ml	98	47	51	0.811
>37u/ml	21	9	12