Figure 4

Kaplan- Meier plots for the cumulative 5- year survival of patients with gastric cancer (GC) after radical resection, stratified according to vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) and high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) expression status. Patients who had tumors with combined HMGB1 and VEGF-C expression had significantly poorer prognosis than other patients (P<0.001, log-rank test).