Clinicopathological Characteristics and Prognosis of Upper Gastric Cancer Patients in China: A 32-Year Single-Center Retrospective Clinical Study

Table 3

Patient characteristics and lymph node metastasis of upper gastric cancer.

	No metastasis	Metastasis	value
	Sex				0.011
Male	201	330
Female	30	88
Age (years)			0.936
<60	107	195
≥60	124	223
Tumor diameter (cm)			<0.001
<5	126	141
≥5	105	277
Tissue typing			0.005
Well differentiated	113	157
Poorly differentiated	118	261
Tissue growth mode			0.166
Agglomerate type	52	79
Nest type	72	113
Diffuse type	107	226
Macroscopic type
Early	39	8	<0.001
Local (Borrmann 1, 2)	65	61	<0.001^#
Infiltrative (Borrmann 3, 4)	127	349
pT			<0.001
T1	39	8
T2	47	20
T3	81	190
T4a	55	165
T4b	9	35
Lymphovascular cancer embolus			0.180
Positive	54	118
Negative	177	300
Serosal invasion			<0.001
Positive	64	200
Negative	167	218
Recurrence and metastasis			0.188
Positive	113	227
Negative	118	191

Early versus advanced cancer; ^#comparison of advanced cancers.