Table 2 Clinical characteristics of 46 paired pancreatic cancer tissue sections and para-cancerous tissue sections

Gender

 Male

25

54%

 Female

21

46%

Age

 Mean (years)

58.36 ± 9.48

Histopathologic subtype

 Well-differentiated adenocarcinomas

19

41%

 Moderately differentiated adenocarcinomas

10

22%

 Poorly differentiated adenocarcinomas

17

37%

TNM staging

 T2N0M0

11

24%

 T2N1M0

3

7%

 T2N1M1

1

2%

 T3N0M0

14

30%

 T3N1M0

7

15%

 T3N0M1

5

11%

 T3N1M1

3

7%

 T4N0M0

1

2%

 T4N1M0

1

2%

Local invasion and distant metastasis

 Local invasion

14

31%

Regional lymph node metastasis

15

33%

Liver metastasis

6

13%

Ascites metastasis

2

4%