Figure 1

Plasma fibrinogen level of 124 patients with benign disease and 792 patients with gastric cancer. Note that there is no difference in fibrinogen levels between benign and cancer patients, although it gradually increases with increasing depth of cancer invasion (one way ANOVA with SNK test; p < 0.0001). Values are the mean (standard deviation) levels for individual patients. *The mean values of plasma fibrinogen were significantly different between the groups of T1 and T2 (P < 0.01), between the groups of T1 and T3/T4 (P < 0.01), and between the groups of T2 and T3/T4 (p < 0.01).