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Table 2 The relationship of CTCs and clinicopathological variables of gastric cancer patients

From: Wedge-shaped microfluidic chip for circulating tumor cells isolation and its clinical significance in gastric cancer

Variable

CTCs positive rate

Count of CTCs

Pa

Pb

Pc

Sex

1.000

0.913

0.915, r = 0.017

Age

0.731

0.553

0.560, r = 0.095

Tumor location

0.823

0.702

0.684, r = 0.684

Histologic subtype

0.975

0.748

0.511, r = 0.107

Differentiation

0.030

0.026

0.005, r = 0.432

Lymphovascular invasion

0.025

< 0.001

< 0.001, r = 0.643

Perineural invasion

0.028

< 0.001

< 0.001, r = 0.725

TNM staged

0.033

< 0.001

< 0.001, r = 0.789

Ki-67

0.024

< 0.001

< 0.001, r = 0.677

  1. CTCs circulating tumor cells
  2. aP value from Fisher’s exact test
  3. bP value from the Mann–Whitney U test
  4. cP value from Spearman rank correlation analysis
  5. d7th edition of AJCC/UICC classification system
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Journal of Translational Medicine

ISSN: 1479-5876

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