Aberrant gene methylation in the peritoneal fluid is a risk factor predicting peritoneal recurrence in gastric cancer

Table 7 Comparison of the methylation status between cancerous tissue and peritoneal fluid in group C

Sample No.	Pathology	CY	P	Examined tissue	Methylation status
					Tissue			Peritoneal fluid
					CHFR	E-cadherin	BNIP3	CHFR	E-cadherin	BNIP3
A-03	por	+	-	Primary cancer	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative	Positive	Negative
A-09	por	+	-	Primary cancer	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive
A-16	por	+	+	Primary cancer	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive
A-29	tub	+	+	Dissemination nodule	Negative	Positive	Negative	Negative	Positive	Positive
A-51	por	+	-	Metastatic lymph node	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive	Positive
A-59	sig	-	+	Primary cancer	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Negative	Negative
A-65	por	-	+	Metastatic ovarian tumor	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive
A-69	sig	+	+	Primary cancer	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive
A-78	tub	+	-	Primary cancer	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive

Abbreviations as in Table 1.