Relationship between expression and distribution of cyclooxygenase-2 and bcl-2 in human gastric adenocarcinoma

Table 1 Pathological characteristics of gastric adenocarcinoma and immunohistochemical COX-2 staining.

Pathological characteristics	n	Expression of COX-2				Positive rate (%)	P
		-	+	++	+++
Gastric carcinomas	36	8	12	10	6	77.8	<0.01b
Para-cancerous tissues	36	19	10	7	0	47.2
Location of tumor
Cardiac carcinoma	16	1	4	8	3	93.8	<0.01b
Non-cardiac carcinoma	20	7	8	2	3	65
Histological type
Intestinal carcinoma	17	3	5	5	4	82.3
Diffuse carcinoma	19	5	7	4	3	74.1
Metastatic lymph node
Positive	22	1	10	5	6	95.5	<0.005b
Negative	14	7	2	5	0	50.0

^bP<0.01 vs the expression of COX-2 was significant between gastric carcinoma and para-cancerous tissues, location of tumor, and metastatic lymph node.