Twist Expression in Circulating Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells Predicts Metastasis and Prognoses

Table 4

Glypican-3 protein expression in the samples of the 41 HCC patients who underwent hepatectomy.

Classification	Patient number	Glypican-3 (+)	Glypican-3 (-)		P value
CTC+ group	28	19	9	1.757	0.185
CTC- group	13	6	7
Twist+ CTC group	24	19	5	8.050
Twist- CTC group	17	6	11

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