Relationship Between LDHA Expression and Tumor Characteristics, Based on Immunohistochemical Score
| No. of patients (n = 51) | |||
| Characteristic | Low (n = 25) | High (n = 26) | P |
| Mean age ± SD (y) | 68.2 ± 9.2 | 66.3 ± 9.1 | 0.231 |
| Sex | 0.691 | ||
| Male | 15 | 17 | |
| Female | 10 | 9 | |
| Histologic type | 0.029 | ||
| Well/moderate | 19 | 12 | |
| Poor | 6 | 14 | |
| T category | 0.002 | ||
| Tis, T1, T2 | 21 | 11 | |
| T3, T4 | 4 | 15 | |
| N category | 0.428 | ||
| Negative | 18 | 16 | |
| Positive | 7 | 10 | |
| M category | 0.952 | ||
| Negative | 21 | 22 | |
| Positive | 4 | 4 | |
| Tumor size (cm) | 0.048 | ||
| ≤3 | 20 | 14 | |
| >3 | 5 | 12 | |
| SUVmax | 0.018 | ||
| Mean ± SD | 7.048 ± 4.4773 | 10.062 ± 4.3191 | |