Characteristics | Patients n = 51 | MELK expression | STRAP expression | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
low | high | P value | low | high | P value | ||
Gender | Â | Â | Â | 0.972 | Â | Â | 0.945 |
 Male | 33 | 13 | 20 |  | 15 | 18 |  |
 Female | 18 | 7 | 11 |  | 8 | 10 |  |
Age (year) | Â | Â | Â | 0.389 | Â | Â | 0.741 |
  ≥ 60 | 32 | 14 | 18 |  | 15 | 17 |  |
  < 60 | 19 | 6 | 13 |  | 8 | 11 |  |
Tumor size | Â | Â | Â | 0.431 | Â | Â | 0.461 |
  ≥ 5 cm | 16 | 5 | 11 |  | 6 | 10 |  |
  < 5 cm | 35 | 15 | 20 |  | 17 | 18 |  |
Tumor differention | Â | Â | Â | 0.544 | Â | Â | 0.931 |
 Good | 0 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Moderate | 47 | 19 | 28 |  | 21 | 26 |  |
 Poor | 4 | 1 | 3 |  | 2 | 2 |  |
T-stage | Â | Â | Â | 0.026 | Â | Â | 0.013 |
 1–2 | 10 | 7 | 3 |  | 8 | 2 |  |
 3–4 | 41 | 13 | 28 |  | 15 | 26 |  |
N-stage | Â | Â | Â | 0.024 | Â | Â | 0.991 |
 0 | 31 | 16 | 15 |  | 14 | 17 |  |
 1–2 | 20 | 4 | 16 |  | 9 | 11 |  |
M-stage | Â | Â | Â | 0.832 | Â | Â | 0.491 |
 0 | 44 | 17 | 27 |  | 19 | 25 |  |
 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 |  | 4 | 3 |  |