Detection of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Status of Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Carcinoma

Table 3

Correlation between total CTCs and demographic data.

Variables		value
Gender	0.040	0.385
Age	0,009	0.687
BMI	0.013	0.627
Tumor location	0.049	0.336
Tumor size	0.026	0.487
T stage	0.151	0.082
N stage	0.698	<0.01
TNM stage	0.359	0.004
Differentiation	0.029	0.459

8th AJCC TNM staging.