Particularly interesting new cysteine-histidine rich protein expression in colorectal adenocarcinomas

Table 1 PINCH expression in relation to clinicopa-thological variables in colorectal cancers

Variables	n	Strong PINCHn (%)	Weak PINCHn (%)	P
Gender				0.67
Male	71	23 (32)	48 (68)
Female	70	25 (36)	45 (64)
Age (years)				0.77
≤56	70	23 (33)	47 (67)
56	71	25 (35)	46 (65)
Tumour location				0.61
Proximal	42	13 (31)	29 (69)
Distal	99	35 (35)	64 (65)
Tumour size (cm)				0.64
≤4.9	86	28 (33)	58 (67)
>4.9	55	20 (36)	35 (64)
Gross status				0.6
Ulcerated	108	38 (35)	70 (65)
Polypoid/Lager fungating	33	10 (30)	23 (70)
Histological type				0.02
Non-mucinous	117	34 (29)	83 (71)
Mucinous/signet-ring cell	27	14 (52)	13 (48)
Grade of differentiation				0.59
Better	99	33 (33)	66 (67)
Worse	42	16 (38)	26 (62)
Lymph node status				0.11
Non-metastasis	100	30 (30)	70 (70)
Metastasis	41	18 (44)	23 (56)
Invasive depth				0.48
Intra-bowel wall	105	34 (32)	71 (68)
Ultra-bowel wall	36	14 (39)	22 (61)
Dukes’ stage				0.17
A	52	12 (23)	40 (77)
B	51	19 (37)	32 (63)
C	34	15 (44)	19 (56)
D	4	2 (50)	2 (50)