Expression of survivin in primary and metastatic gastric cancer cells obtained by laser capture microdissection

Table 1 Relationship between survivin expression and different histopathological features

	Survivin expression in			Survivin expression pattern
Variant	primary cancer			in cancer and normal tissues
	Positive	Negative	1P	N(-)T(-)	N(-)T(+)	N(+)T(+)	P
Gross type
Borrmann I + II	7	1	2NS	1	4	3	NS
Borrmann III + IV	17	5		5	13	4
Depth of invasion
pT1 + pT2	9	1	NS	1	5	4	NS
pT3 + pT4	15	5		5	2	3
Differentiation
Well and medorate	7	1	NS	1	4	3	NS
Poor and undifferentiate	17	5		5	13	4
Lauren classification
Intestinal type	21	4	NS	4	16	5	NS
Diffuse type	3	2		2	1	2
Ming growth pattern
Expanding	9	3	NS	3	6	3	NS
Infiltrative	15	3		3	11	4
Lymph node metastasis
pN0	8	2	NS	2	5	3	NS
pN1	5	1		1	3	2
pN2 + pN3	11	3		3	9	2

¹P was estimated by the fFsher’s exact test

²NS, not significant.