03 September 2020 : Clinical Research
Positive Cross-Talk Between CXC Chemokine Receptor 4 (CXCR4) and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Promotes Gastric Cancer Metastasis via the Nuclear Factor kappa B (NF-kB)-Dependent Pathway
Yu Cheng123ABCDEG, Xiaofang Che123A, Simeng Zhang123C, Tianshu Guo123F, Xin He123F, Yunpeng Liu123AG*, Xiujuan Qu123AGDOI: 10.12659/MSM.925019
Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e925019
Table 1 Correlation between CXCR4/EGFR levels and clinicopathological factors in patients with primary GC.
| Factors | All cases | EGFR | P value | CXCR4 | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative | Positive | Negative | Positive | ||||
| Gender | |||||||
| Female | 14 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 9 | ||
| Male | 42 | 28 | 14 | 0.513 | 17 | 25 | 0.752 |
| Age | |||||||
| <60 | 28 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 18 | ||
| ≥60 | 28 | 19 | 9 | 1.000 | 12 | 16 | 0.584 |
| Depth of invasion | |||||||
| T1+T2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | ||
| T3+T4 | 47 | 30 | 17 | 0.045* | 17 | 30 | 0.294 |
| Tumor size | |||||||
| ≥5 cm | 18 | 7 | 10 | 19 | |||
| <5 cm | 21 | 10 | 0.730 | 12 | 15 | 0.922 | |
| Lymphovascular invasion | |||||||
| Yes | 13 | 6 | 5 | 14 | |||
| No | 26 | 11 | 0.887 | 17 | 20 | 0.154 | |
| LN metastasis | |||||||
| N0 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 10 | 6 | ||
| N1–3 | 40 | 24 | 16 | 0.022* | 12 | 28 | 0.024* |
| Lauren classification | |||||||
| Intestinal | 22 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 14 | ||
| Diffuse | 21 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 13 | ||
| mixed | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0.670 | 6 | 7 | 0.840 |
| LN – lymph node. * P | |||||||






