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

Table 5

Patient characteristics and recurrence and metastasis of upper gastric cancer.

	Recurrence and metastasis	No recurrence and metastasis	value
	Sex				0.246
Male	221	310
Female	56	62
Age (years)			0.987
<60	129	173
≥60	148	199
Tumor diameter (cm)			0.004
<5	96	171
≥5	181	201
Tissue typing			0.099
Well differentiated	105	165
Poorly differentiated	172	207
Tissue growth mode			0.473
Agglomerate type	58	73
Nest type	72	113
Diffuse type	147	186
Macroscopic type
Early	6	41	<0.001
Local (Borrmann 1, 2)	36	90	<0.001^#
Infiltrative (Borrmann 3, 4)	235	241
Lymphovascular cancer embolus			0.003
Positive	90	82
Negative	187	290
Serosal invasion			0.002
Positive	132	132
Negative	145	240
Adjuvant chemotherapy			0.412
Positive	186	261
Negative	91	111
pTNM stage			<0.001
I	16	74
II	58	156
III	203	142

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