Table 2
Association of CD44 expression with clinicopathologic characteristics in patients with gastric cancer

Clinical parameters CD44 positive (n=69) CD44 negative (n=74) P-value
Age (yr) 0.003
<60 21 (30.4) 41 (55.4)
≥60 48 (69.6) 33 (44.6)
Sex 0.077
Male 49 (71.0) 42 (56.8)
Female 20 (29.0) 32 (43.2)
Tumor location 0.442
Antrum 38 (55.1) 36 (48.6)
Corpus 31 (44.9) 38 (51.4)
Early gastric cancer 24 (34.8) 34 (45.9) 0.174
Advanced gastric cancer 45 (65.2) 40 (54.1)
WHO classification 0.061
Tubular adenocarcinoma 51 (73.9) 39 (52.7)
Papillary adenocarcinoma 0 (0.0) 1 (1.4)
Mucinous adenocarcinoma 3 (4.3) 6 (8.1)
Signet ring cell carcinoma 15 (21.7) 28 (37.8)
Lauren classification 0.038
Intestinal 39 (56.5) 29 (39.2)
Diffuse & mixed 30 (43.5) 45 (60.8)
Vascular invasion (n=140) 0.497
No 50 (74.6) 58 (79.5)
Yes 17 (25.4) 15 (20.5)
Lymphatic invasion 0.01
No 31 (44.9) 49 (66.2)
Yes 38 (55.1) 25 (33.8)
Perineural invasion (n=140) 0.104
No 43 (64.2) 56 (76.7)
Yes 24 (35.8) 17 (23.3)
T stage 0.224
Tis, T1 23 (33.3) 32 (43.2)
T2, T3, T4 46 (66.7) 42 (56.8)
N stage 0.022
N0 25 (36.2) 41 (55.4)
N1, N2, N3 44 (63.8) 33 (44.6)
M stage 0.233
M0 61 (88.4) 70 (94.6)
M1 8 (11.6) 4 (5.4)
CEA (n=130) 0.787
≤5 60 (89.6) 55 (87.3)
>5 7 (10.4) 8 (12.7)
CA19-9 (n=124) 0.81
≤27 56 (84.8) 48 (82.8)
>27 10 (15.2) 10 (17.2)
Values are presented as number (%).
CD44, cluster of differentiation 44.