Relationship between Epstein-Barr virus-encoded proteins with cell proliferation, apoptosis, and apoptosis-related proteins in gastric carcinoma

Table 2 Comparison of clinicopathological data between EBVaGC and EBVnGC patients.

	EBVaGC (n = 13)	EBVnGC (n = 45)	P
Age (yr) (mean±SD)1	59.76±10.17	57.31±14.05	0.5613 (t = 0.5844)
Sex
Male	13	35	0.1466 (χ2 = 2.1070)
Female	0	10
Tumor location
Cardia/body	9	21	0.1516 (χ2 = 2.0566)
Antrum	4	24
Histological subtype
Adenocarcinoma	12	41	0.6704 (χ2 = 0.1811)
Signet ring carcinoma	1	4
Tumor differentiation
Moderate	1	7	0.7890 (χ2 = 0.0716)
Poor	12	38
Lymph node metastasis
Present	10	33	0.9999 (χ2 = 0.0098)
Absent	3	12
Tumor stage2
Early	0	1	1.0000
Advanced	13	44

¹Age was compared using Student’s t test;

²Tumor stage was compared using two-tailed Fisher’s exact test; the remainders, using χ²-test.