Table 3 Correlation between hTR, hTERT and clinicopathological parameters
Parameter | Freq | hTERT+ samples | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hTR expression | hTERT expression | hTR expression | |||||||||
Neg. | Pos. | P | Neg. | Pos. | P | Neg. | Pos | P | |||
Age range | ≤40 >40 | 10 (22.2)* 35 (77.8) | 0 14 | 10 21 | 0.019 | 0 8 | 10 27 | 0.168 | 0 11 | 10 16 | 0.018 |
Size range | ≤2 cm | 22 (47.8) | 5 | 17 | 0.2 | 4 | 18 | 0.538 | 4 | 14 | 0.27 |
2–5 cm | 19 (41.3) | 9 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 7 | 8 | ||||
>5 cm | 5 (10.8) | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | ||||
Pathol. | IDC | 43 (95.5) | 15 | 28 | 0.593 | 8 | 35 | 0.798 | 12 | 23 | 0.602 |
ILC | 1 (2.2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Muc. | 1 (2.2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Grade | I | 4 (9.8) | 1 | 3 | 0.282 | 1 | 3 | 0.958 | 1 | 2 | 0.765 |
II | 16 (39) | 3 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 10 | ||||
III | 21 (51.2) | 9 | 12 | 4 | 17 | 6 | 11 | ||||
Low | 20 (48.8) | 4 | 16 | 0.18 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 0.7 | |
High | 20 (51.2) | 9 | 12 | 4 | 17 | 6 | 11 | ||||
ALN Inv. | Positive | 26 (57.8) | 6 | 20 | 0.2 | 4 | 22 | 0.7 | 5 | 17 | 0.29 |
Negative | 19 (42.2) | 8 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 6 | 9 | ||||
Stage | I | 9 (30) | 4 | 5 | 0.087 | 2 | 7 | 0.941 | 3 | 4 | 0.045 |
IIA | 7 (23.3) | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | ||||
IIB | 7 (23.3) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||||
IIIA | 6 (20) | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | ||||
IIIB | 1 (3.3) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||