Research Article
Cripto-1 Promotes the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells
Table 3
Cripto-1 protein expression and clinical data.
| Clinical data | | CR-1+ (%) | CR-1− (%) | value |
| Gender | | | | | Male | 28 | 15 (53.5) | 13 (46.5) | 0.6260 | Female | 13 | 7 (53.8) | 6 (46.2) | Median age (yr) | | | | | ≤60 | 23 | 12 (52.2) | 11 (47.8) | 0.5400 | >60 | 18 | 10 (55.6) | 8 (44.4) | T (infiltration range) | | | | | T1-2 | 13 | 6 (46.2) | 7 (54.8) | 0.3740 | T3-4 | 28 | 16 (57.1) | 12 (42.9) | N (nodal metastasis) | | | | | N0 | 10 | 2 (20) | 8 (80) | 0.0200 | N1-3 | 31 | 20 (64.5) | 11 (35.5) | M (distal metastasis) | | | | | M0 | 36 | 17 (47.2) | 19 (52.8) | 0.0350 | M1 | 5 | 5 (100) | 0 (0) | Clinical stage | | | | | I-II | 16 | 4 (25) | 12 (75) | 0.0040 | III-IV | 25 | 18 (72) | 7 (28) |
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