Post-Operative Plasma Osteopontin Predicts Distant Metastasis in Human Colorectal Cancer
Fig 2
Clinicopathological significances of post-operative plasma OPN level.
(A) Comparison of post-operative plasma OPN levels in patients with or without post-operative metastasis (p = 0.004; Student’s t-test). (B) Incidence rates of post-operative metastasis in CRC patients with high (≥153.02 ng/ml) or low (<153.02 ng/ml) post-operative plasma OPN level. (C) ROC curve using post-operative plasma OPN level for discriminating patients with post-operative metastasis from those without post-operative metastasis. (D) Correlation of post-operative plasma OPN with disease-free survival of CRC patients (p = 0.009; Log-rank test). All data are representative of three independent experiments.