Neutrophils in primary gastric tumors are correlated with neutrophil infiltration in tumor-draining lymph nodes and the systemic inflammatory response

Table 1 Relationship between CD15 + TANs of primary tumour and clinicopathological features of patients with gastric cancer

characteristics	N	TAN(primary tumour)		P value
characteristics	N	high	low
Age(years)
< 65	56	27	29	0.987
≧65	64	31	33	0.987
gender
Male	87	39	48	0.023
female	33	20	13	0.023
pT category
T1 + T2	69	24	45	< 0.001
T3 + T4	51	34	17
pN category
N(−)	67	21	46	< 0.001
N(+)	53	38	15	< 0.001
pStage
I + II	78	27	51	< 0.001
III + IV	42	31	11	< 0.001
Histology
differentiated(well, mod, pap)	52	23	29	0.1810
undifferentiated(por, sig, muc)	68	36	32	0.1810
lymphatic invasion
absent	48	15	33	< 0.001
present	72	43	29	< 0.001
venous invasion
absent	91	39	52	0.023
present	29	10	19	0.023

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