Fucosylation and gastrointestinal cancer

Table 1 Positive ratio of fucosylated haptoglobin in sera of patients with various diseases[63]

	n	Negative	Positive	%
Normal	30	29	1	3
aPancreatic cancer	87	30	57	66
acHCC	23	18	5	22
acLiver cirrhosis	12	9	3	25
cGastric cancer	10	8	2	20
aColon cancer	100	59	41	41
acChronic pancreatitis	9	7	2	22

Statistic analysis was performed according to the program for StatView software.

^aP < 0.05 vs normal;

^cP < 0.05 vs pancreatic cancer (χ² test).