The association of positive vimentin expression with a shorter survival remained among the main subgroups of patients studied including those treated by pancreaticoduodenectomy, with T3 stage cancers, those patients with lymph node metastasis (N1 TNM stage) and those patients having margin negative, stage 2 or stage 2B disease or in those patients having cancers with moderate or poor differentiation (Table 3) (Figure 3). This evidence concerns the gene VIM and cancer.