RARRES2 and neoplasm: Chemerin expression was found to be weakly associated with tumor size (r = 0.235, p = 0.03), lymph node metastasis (r = 0.265, p = 0.045), distant metastasis (r = 0.267, p = 0.02) and showed good association with tumor grading, (r = 0.421, p = 0.004).