High Expression of COL17A1 Predicts Poor Prognosis and Promotes the Tumor Progression via NF-κB Pathway in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Table 2

Interrelationship between expression of COL17A1 and clinicopathologic traits of pancreatic cancer subjects.

Characteristics	COL17A1 expression		p value
	Low or none	High
Age
≤60	30	46	0.633
>60	33	60
Sex
Male	37	59	0.749
Female	26	47
T classification
T1 or T2	18	20	0.182
T3 or T4	45	86
N classification
N0	56	42	<0.0001
N1-2	7	64
Metastasis
No	63	100	0.135
Yes	0	6
Clinical stage
I or II	56	39	<0.0001
III or IV	7	67
Pathology differentiation
High (middle or high)	53	62	<0.01
Low (no or low)	10	44
Vascular invasion
No	48	71	0.226
Yes	15	35
Neural invasion
No	38	49	0.082
Yes	25	57

Patients were staged in accordance with the 8^th Edition of the AJCC Cancer’s’ TNM Classification. The numbers in bold indicate that the p values are significant (, the chi-square test).