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. 2004 Oct 19;91(9):1711–1717. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602201

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Morphometric results of the number of intraepithelial CD8+ T cells among different groups. The longitudinal axis, the number of intraepithelial CD8+ T cells. A, Patients alive for more than 5 years (stage I excluded). B, Patients who died of the primary disease after curative operation (stages II and III). C, patients who received noncurative operation (stage IV+stage III with unresectable lymph node metastasis). We excluded cases positive for cancer cells at the resection margins. Overall differences, P<0.0005 (Kruskal–Wallis).