Prognostic Significance of N-Glycolyl GM3 Ganglioside Expression in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Patients: New Evidences

Table 4

Expression of NeuGcGM3 in relation to ploidy and malignant cells proliferation.

Features	Number of cases ()	NeuGcGM3 expression		value
		Low	High
Ploidy
Diploid	25	8	17	1.000
Aneuploid	26	9	17
S-Phase fraction
<20%	21	12	9	0.006
≥20%	30	5	25
Proliferation index
<20%	15	11	4	0.000
≥20%	36	6	30

S-Phase fraction, cells in S-Phase of cell cycle; proliferation index, sum of cells in both S and G₂/M phases of cell cycle; Fisher exact test. Bold value indicates statistical significance.