High Expression and Clinical Significance of Elafin in Colorectal Cancer

Table 1

Expression of Elafin in colorectal cancer patients and nontumor tissues.

Methods	Tumors	Nontumors	Chi-square/	value
IHC
Total ()	88	88	6.705	0.010
High (%)	68 (77.3%)	52 (59.1%)
Low (%)	20 (22.7%)	36 (40.9%)
qRT-PCR
Total (N)	35	35	2.103	0.039
Elafin levels
TCGA
Total ()	438	41	1.260	0.208
Elafin levels

Continuous variables are presented as the . IHC: immunohistochemistry; TCGA: The Cancer Genome Atlas.