Association between tumour cell TP expression and clinicopathological features of the patients
| Clinicopathological features | Tumour cell TP expression (n = 30) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High (n = 13) | % | Low (n = 17) | % | p Value | |
| TP, thymidine phosphorylase. | |||||
| *Significant. | |||||
| Histology | |||||
| Adenocarcinoma (n = 25) | 11 | 44 | 14 | 56 | 1.0 |
| Squamous cell carcinoma (n = 5) | 2 | 40 | 3 | 60 | |
| Stage | |||||
| IIIB (n = 4) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 100 | 0.13 |
| IV (n = 26) | 13 | 50 | 13 | 50 | |
| Sex | |||||
| Male (n = 15) | 5 | 33 | 10 | 67 | 0.46 |
| Female (n = 15) | 8 | 53 | 7 | 47 | |
| Tumour response | |||||
| Responder (n = 16) | 11 | 69 | 5 | 31 | 0.004* |
| Non-responder (n = 14) | 2 | 14 | 12 | 86 | |