Association between stromal TP expression and clinicopathological features of patients
| Clinicopathological features | Stromal TP expression (n = 28) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High (n = 16) | % | Low (n = 12) | % | p Value | |
| TP, thymidine phosphorylase. | |||||
| *Significant. | |||||
| Histology | |||||
| Adenocarcinoma (n = 23) | 13 | 57 | 10 | 43 | 1.0 |
| Squamous cell carcinoma (n = 5) | 3 | 60 | 2 | 40 | |
| Stage | |||||
| IIIB (n = 4) | 4 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0.13 |
| IV (n = 24) | 12 | 50 | 12 | 50 | |
| Sex | |||||
| Male (n = 15) | 9 | 60 | 6 | 40 | 1.0 |
| Female (n = 13) | 7 | 54 | 8 | 46 | |
| Tumour response | |||||
| Responder (n = 15) | 5 | 33 | 10 | 67 | 0.009* |
| Non-responder (n = 13) | 11 | 85 | 2 | 15 | |