Overexpression of SLC38A1 is associated with poorer prognosis in Chinese patients with gastric cancer

BMC Gastroenterology

Table 1 Association between SLC38A1 expression and clinicopathological factors of GC patients

Clinicopathological variables	Total	SLC38A1 positive expression
	n	n	P
Age			0.007
≤ 60 years	447	227
> 60 years	449	268
Sex			0.437
Male	634	345
Female	262	150
Location			0.277
Cardia	144	86
Corpus	281	150
Antrum	440	246
Whole	31	13
Operation manner			0.590
Subtotal gastrectomy	400	217
Total gastrectomy	496	278
Size (Diameter)			0.321
≤ 6 cm	706	384
> 6 cm	190	111
Differentiation			<0.001
High/moderate	553	337
Low/undifferentiated	343	158
Gastric wall invasion			0.151
T1/T2	308	160
T3/T4	588	335
lymph node metastasis			0.026
Negative	346	175
Positive	550	320
TNM stage			0.001
I/II	427	212
III	469	283
Lymphovascular invasion			0.275
Negative	850	466
Positive	46	29
p53 expression			0.382
Negative	401	228
Positive	495	267
PCNA expression			0.012
Negative	99	43
Positive	797	452

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