Table 2 Correlations between plasma TIMP-1 and parameters of tumor load in pancreatic cancer patients
T (1–4) | N (0,1) | Number of positive lymph nodes | Number of removed lymph nodes | Liver metastases (yes or no) | Distant metastases (yes or no) | UICC (1–4) | Grading (1–4) | Resection status (R0, R1) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plasma TIMP-1, ng/ml | Spearman’s correlation | .138 | −.061 | −.189 | .200 | .375 | .160 | .222 | −.026 | .049 |
Significance (2-tailed) | .491 | .768 | .355 | .326 | .024 | .381 | .194 | .887 | .821 | |
N | 27 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 36 | 32 | 36 | 32 | 24 |