Table 1 Correlation of RAR\( \gamma \) expression with patients’ clinicopathological variables in 56 cases of HCCC
From: RARγ-induced E-cadherin downregulation promotes hepatocellular carcinoma invasion and metastasis
Characteristics | All cases (N = 56) | RAR\( \gamma \) expression (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Low (n = 21) | High (n = 35) | \( \chi \) 2 value | p value | ||
Gender | 0.221 | 0.639 | |||
Male | 47 | 17 | 30 | ||
Female | 9 | 4 | 5 | ||
Age (years) | 1.026 | 0.311 | |||
≤ 50 | 15 | 4 | 11 | ||
> 50 | 41 | 17 | 24 | ||
Tumor size (cm) | 5.265 | 0.022 | |||
≤ 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | ||
> 3 | 48 | 11 | 37 | ||
Cirrhosis | 0.076 | 0.783 | |||
Negative | 28 | 10 | 18 | ||
Positive | 28 | 11 | 17 | ||
HBV infection | 0.327 | 0.567 | |||
Negative | 4 | 9 | |||
Positive | 17 | 26 | |||
Distant metastasis | 8.443 | 0.004 | |||
No | 26 | 15 | 11 | ||
Yes | 30 | 6 | 24 | ||
TNM stage | 8.310 | 0.004 | |||
I/II | 41 | 20 | 21 | ||
III/IV | 15 | 1 | 14 | ||
Differentiation | 0.448 | 0.799 | |||
Well | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||
Moderate | 25 | 9 | 16 | ||
Poor | 25 | 9 | 16 | ||