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Table 2.

Association of c-Myc, hTERT expression, and relative telomere length with different clinicopathological findings in gastric cancer patients.

Clinicopathological parameters	c-Myc expression			hTERT expression			Relative telomere length
Clinicopathological parameters	Low expression	High expression	p-value	Low expression	High expression	p-value	Short telomeres	Long telomeres	p-value
Gender
Males	08	33	0.76	12	29	0.3	32	10	0.006
Females	06	10	0.76	07	09	0.3	08	07	0.006
Age
*≥51*	12	32	0.89	14	30	0.03	32	12	0.002
≤50	01	12	0.89	5	8	0.03	08	05	0.002
Smoking status
Smokers	07	26	0.3	10	23	0.58	26	07	0.02
Nonsmokers	07	17	0.3	09	15	0.58	14	10	0.02
Histopathology
Poorly differentiated	05	18	0.18	09	14	0.67	16	07	0.8
Moderately differentiated	06	14		07	13		13	07
Well differentiated	01	06		02	05		05	02
Others	02	05		01	06		06	01
TNM staging
Stages I and II	07	14	0.0009	09	15	0.01	12	09	0.4
Stage III	07	29	0.0009	10	23	0.01	28	08	0.4

The bold values represents that they are statistically significant.