Research Article

Snail Protein Expression as a Hallmark of Gastric Carcinoma in Biopsy Samples

Table 4

Correlation between Snail expression and clinicopathological features of gastric carcinoma. Spearman’s rank correlation was used to determine the statistical significance of the correlations between Snail expression and the pathological variables. SPSS software v. 16.0 for Windows was used for the statistical analysis.

 Snail expression  Total P
Negative (0~10)Low (10~20)High (>20)

Total10 (6.1%)39 (23.6%)116 (70.3%)165

Differentiation0.362
 Well1 (2.8%)9 (25%)26 (72.2%)36
 Moderately013 (27.1%)35 (72.9%)48
 Poorly07 (13.7%)44 (86.3%)51
 Signet-ring cell9 (30%)10 (33.3%)11 (36.7%)30
Sex0.771
 Female6 (7.6%)18 (22.8%)55 (69.6%)79
 Male4 (4.7%)21 (24.4%)61 (70.9%)86
Tumor location0.381
 Anastomosis002 (100%)2
 EC01 (12.5%)7 (87.5%)8
 CF5 (7.4%)19 (27.9%)44 (64.7%)68
 LC3 (10%)4 (13.3%)23 (76.7%)30
 GC2 (7.4%)9 (33.3%)16 (59.3%)27
 AP06 (20%)24 (80%)30