The Number of Positive Tumor Markers (NPTM) Achieves Higher Value in the Prognosis Prediction of Gastric Cancer

Table 1

Characteristics of 928 GC patients.

Variables	of patients	%	Variables	of patients	%
Gender			pTNM
Female	276	29.7	I	99	10.7
Male	652	70.3	II	312	33.6
Age			III	517	55.7
≤60	486	52.4	CEA
>60	442	47.6	Normal	734	79.1
Body mass index			Elevated	194	20.9
<24	546	58.8	CA19-9
≥ 24	382	41.2	Normal	697	75.1
Hypertension			Elevated	231	24.9
No	750	80.8	CA24-2
Yes	178	19.2	Normal	774	83.4
Diabetes			Elevated	154	16.6
No	846	91.2	CA72-4
Yes	82	8.8	Normal	667	71.9
Family history			Elevated	261	28.1
No	799	86.1	NPTM
Yes	129	13.9	0	459	49.5
Differentiation grade			1	244	26.3
Well	204	22.0	2	118	12.7
Moderate	181	19.5	3	68	7.3
Poorly	543	58.5	4	39	4.2
Tumor location			Postoperative chemotherapy
Upper	183	19.7	No	266	28.7
Middle	226	24.4	Yes	662	71.3
Lower	519	55.9	Overall survival
Tumor size (cm)			Alive	503	54.2
<5	370	39.9	Death	425	45.8
≥ 5	558	60.1

Abbreviations: GC: gastric cancer; BMI: body mass index; TNM: tumor-node-metastasis staging; CEA: carcinoembryonic antigen; CA: carbohydrate antigen; NPTM: number of positive tumor markers.