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In this study, 111 patients who had previously undergone complete resection and systematic mediastinal lymph node dissection for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were studied retrospectively. In the primary tumor, as well as in the lymph node metastases, E-cadherin expression was detected by immunohistochemistry using a monoclonal antibody (HECD-1; Takara, Otsu, Japan). There was a significant inverse correlation between E-cadherin expression and lymph node stage (Pearson correlation coefficient \u2212 0.52, p = 0.0001) as well as tumor differentiation (Pearson correlation coefficient \u2212 0.27, p = 0.005). Moreover, Kaplan and Meier survival estimates showed a significant correlation between E-cadherin expression and patient survival in log rank testing (p = 0.006). In the patient group with the highest proportion of E-cadherin positive tumor cells, 60% of the patients were still estimated to be alive at 36 mo, versus 32% of the patients in the group classified as showing negative E-cadherin expression. Our findings provide clinical evidence that reduced E-cadherin expression is associated with tumor dedifferentiation, increased lymphogenous metastasis and poor survival. 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