ANGPTL4 and neoplasm: In total, there were (delete) 52 cases (69.2 %) showed a higher level of ANGPTL4 protein expression in tumor tissues than that in normal tissues, with the average immunostaining scores in tumor tissues being 3.04 ± 1.80 and 1.42 ± 1.01 in normal tissues (Fig. 1e, P < 0.001).