Circulating Galectin-1 and 90K/Mac-2BP Correlated with the Tumor Stages of Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Table 2

Levels of galectin-1, galectin-3, 90K/Mac-2BP, and CEA in the sera of colon cancer patients.

	All patients	Stages I and II	Stages III and IV	P
Galectin-1 (ng/mL)	14.33 ± 1.67	8.73 ± 1.08	20.93 ± 3.77	0.002^*
Galectin-3 (ng/mL)	1.54 ± 0.10	1.44 ± 0.11	1.65 ± 0.17	0.320
90K/Mac-2BP (g/mL)	6.77 ± 0.25	6.87 ± 0.36	6.65 ± 0.36	0.665
CEA (ng/mL)	153.19 ± 66.31	26.30 ± 19.89	302.39 ± 140.43	0.055

CEA: carcinoembryonic antigen; ^*significant difference.
The continuous variables were described by mean ± SEM.