Research Article

Correlation between Clinicopathology and Expression of Heat Shock Protein 72 and Glycoprotein 96 in Human Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Table 4

Tumor markers in pretreatment sera samples and tumor differentiation of the patients.

Tumor differentiation (%)
Well differentiatedModerately differentiatedPoorly differentiated

CYFRA21-1(−) 6514 (21.5) 20 (30.8) 31 (47.7)
(+) 5512 (21.8) 17 (30.9) 26 (47.3)a

SCC (−) 91 20 (22.0) 33 (36.3) 38 (41.7)
(+) 29 7 (24.1) 10 (34.5) 12 (41.4)b

CEA(−) 10628 (26.4) 37 (34.9) 41 (38.7)
(+) 14 4 (28.6) 5 (35.7) 5 (35.7)c

, versus CYFRA21-1 negative group; , versus SCC negative group; , versus CEA negative group.