PSMD14 and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and log rank test showed that factors significantly associated with DFS were sex (P = 0.002), invasive cancer (P = 0.001), tumor stage (P = 0.001), invasion of the intestinal wall (P = 0.001), lymph node metastasis (P = 0.001), vessel carcinoma embolus (P = 0.001), vascular invasion (P = 0.001), alcohol intake (P = 0.001), smoking history (P = 0.0012), family history of cancer (P = 0.0436), and PSMD14 expression (P = 0.0232) (Table 2).