Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of the 134 GC patients in the study. Age (p = 0.022), histopathology (p = 0.037), AJCC staging (p<0.001), adjuvant chemotherapy (p<0.001), hematocrit (p = 0.014), PLR (p<0.001), CRP (p = 0.005), Tmax (p<0.001) and SLR (p = 0.003) were significantly different between patients with and without recurrence, whereas the other characteristics were not different. This evidence concerns the gene CRP and gastric cancer.