Twist Expression in Circulating Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells Predicts Metastasis and Prognoses

Table 3

Correlation between the positive ratios of CTCs/Twist+ CTCs and histopathological risk factors of the 41 HCC patients who underwent hepatectomy.

Histopathological features	CTCs		Twist+ CTCs
		P value		P value
Differentiation stage	3.425	0.232	4.909	0.089
Microvascular invasion	4.143	0.052	9.616

Note.  P values are from chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test. is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). Edmondson-Steiner grading system.
HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma; CTCs: circulating tumor cells.