Relationship between clinicopathological features and mucin phenotypes of advanced gastric adenocarcinoma

Table 4 Comparisons between the expression of G and GI phenotypes in clinical profiles, tumor site and tumor size, metastasis rate, and histological findings, according to the histological subtype

Histological subtype	DAC		SIG		Non-SIG
Mucin phenotype	G (n = 9)	GI (n = 29)	G (n = 6)	GI (n = 3)	G (n = 19)	GI (n = 27)
Male:female	6:3	12:17	0:6a	3:0a	9:10	10:17
Mean age (yr)	57.2	60.3	63.2	55.3	68.2	60.9
Tumor site
U	2	7	2	0	2	5
M	2	10	0	1	9	18
L	5	12	4	2	8	4
Tumor size (cm)
< 5	3	17	3	0	9b	3b
> 5	6	12	3	3	10b	24b
Metastasis rate (expression rate, %)
Lymph node	67	45	83	100	42c	81c
Other site	22	3	50	33	11	19
Histological findings (expression rate, %)
Vessel invasion	67	69	67	100	84	93
Lymph invasion	100	86	83	100	95	100

^aP = 0.01,

^bP = 0.01,

^cP = 0.01.