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Table 4 Statistical significance of the correlations between overall survival and COX-2 expression in cancer stromal cells

From: Stromal, rather than epithelial cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression is associated with overall survival of breast cancer patients

 

Ab1

Ab2

Ab3

Kaplan-Meier analysis

ALG 1

0.0001

0.0001

0.0070

ALG 2

NS

0.0001

NS

ALG 3

0.0006

0.0005

0.0360

Cox model including expression of ER, PR and HER

ALG 1

0.0002

0.0001

0.0100

ALG 2

NS

0.0005

NS

ALG 3

0.0014

0.0005

0.0200

Cox model including clinico-pathological parameters pT and pN

ALG 1

0.0006

0.0002

0.0200

ALG 2

NS

0.0001

NS

ALG 3

0.0028

0.0070

0.0360

Cox model including all the parameters (ER, PR, HER-2, pT and pN)

ALG 1

0.0002

0.0001

0.0150

ALG 2

NS

0.0001

NS

ALG 3

0.0029

0.0040

0.0200

  1. (NS - not significant).