Expression of vascular endothelial growth factors A and C in human pancreatic cancer

Table 1 VEGF-A and VEGF-C expression in relation to the clinicopathologic characteristics of 50 patients with pancreatic cancer

	VEGF-A			VEGF-C
	+	-	P	+	-	P
Age (yr)	64 ± 10	62 ± 9		65 ± 10	62 ± 8
Gender
Male	18	17		28	7
Female	7	8		12	3
TNM
T1	1	8	0.035	8	1	0.701
T2	9	7		13	3
T3	15	10		19	6
N0	6	5	0.733	6	5	0.017
N1	19	20		34	5
M0	20	23	0.221	35	8	0.541
M1	5	2		5	2
Stage
I	0	0	0.801	0	0	0.416
II	1	2		2	1
III	5	4		6	3
IV	19	19		32	6
Differentiated degree
well	10	5	0.290	14	1	0.304
moderate	13	18		23	8
poor	2	2		3	1

TNM: tumor node metastasis.

Table 2 Correlation between VEGF-A and VEGF-C expression in 50 patients with pancreatic cancer

	VEGF(-A)		P
	+	-
	+ 21	19
VEGF-C			0.480
	- 4	6