Simultaneous expression of flotillin-1, flotillin-2, stomatin and caveolin-1 in non-small cell lung cancer and soft tissue sarcomas

Table 2 Spearman’s rank correlations between caveolin-1, stomatin and flotillin-1 mRNA expression in groups of tumors, divided according to clinicopathological characteristics

Group	Spearman's rank correlation coefficients
Group	Caveolin-1 and Stomatin	Caveolin-1 and Flotillin-1	Stomatin and Flotillin-1
Histology
NSCLC	0,437	0,295^a	0,849
Adenocarcinomas	0,469	NS	0,848
SCC	0,45	NS	0,816
Clinical stage
I-II	0,672	0,442^b	0,863
III-IV	NS^c	NS	0,869
Tumor stage
T1-T2	0,666	0,497	0,886
T3-T4	NS	NS	0,777
Lymph node status
Positive	NS	NS	0,885
Negative	0,575	NS	0,901
Degree of differentiation
Moderate	0,463	NS	0,864
Poor	NS	NS	0,815

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