Targeted Inhibition of mTOR Signaling Improves Sensitivity of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells to Cisplatin

Table 2

Clinical significance of mTOR protein expression.

Pathological features	𝑛	mTOR
		Positive 𝑛 (%)	𝑃
Histology classification
I	9	6 (66.7)	0.917
II	14	9 (64.3)
III	12	7 (58.3)
Depth of infiltration
Mucosa	7	3 (42.9)	0.308
Muscle layer	15	9 (60.0)
Fiber membrane	13	10 (76.9)
Lymph node metastasis
No	19	10 (52.6)	0.172
Yes	16	12 (75.0)
TNM phase
I, II	13	4 (30.8)	0.003
III, IV	22	18 (81.8)