Research Article

Atypical Mucin Expression Predicts Worse Overall Survival in Resectable Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Table 3

Clinicopathological characteristics of FUSCC PDAC patients stratified by MUC5AC expression.

VariablesMUC5AC negativeMUC5AC positive

Age, (%)0.486
 <6220 (42.6%)175 (47.9%)
 ≥6227 (57.4%)190 (52.1%)
Sex, (%)0.145
 Male32 (68.1%)205 (56.9%)
 Female15 (31.9%)155 (43.1%)
Tumour grade, (%)0.120
 Low0 (0.0%)19 (5.3%)
 Moderate26 (55.3%)220 (61.3%)
 High21 (44.7%)120 (33.4%)
Tumour stage, (%)0.067
 I19 (40.4%)146 (40.0%)
 II27 (57.4%)170 (46.6%)
 III1 (2.1%)49 (13.4%)
T stage, (%)0.958
 T18 (17.0%)63 (17.3%)
 T228 (59.6%)210 (57.5%)
 T311 (23.4%)92 (25.2%)
N stage, (%)0.084
 N021 (44.7%)189 (52.5%)
 N124 (51.1%)130 (36.1%)
 N22 (4.3%)41 (11.4%)
Tumour location, (%)0.058
 Head20 (42.6%)203 (55.6%)
 Body26 (55.3%)156 (43.3%)
 Tail1 (2.1%)1 (0.3%)
Vascular invasion, (%)0.345
 No10 (21.3%)100 (27.8%)
 Yes37 (78.7%)260 (72.2%)
Perineural infiltration, (%)0.354
 No39 (83.0%)316 (87.8%)
 Yes8 (17.0%)44 (12.2%)
Diabetes mellitus, (%)0.097
 No36 (76.6%)309 (85.8%)
 Yes11 (23.4%)51 (14.2%)