Inhibitors of apoptosis proteins in human cervical cancer

BMC Cancer

Table 6 Survivin DeltaEx3 expression in cervical cancer samples.

Variable	No. patients (n = 41)*	Median expression Survivin DeltaEx3	AD	p
FIGO stage
IB	0 (8)	0	0	0.59
IIB	2 (16)	0.09	24.51
IIIB	2 (17)	0.11	35.68
Histology of tumors
Squamous cell	2 (34)	0.01	16.99	0.04
Adenocarcinoma	2 (5)	0.22	60.12
Adenosquamous	0 (2)	0	0
Menopause
Pre-Menopause	2 (10)	0.14	48.94	0.33
Menopause	1 (8)	0.02	10.65
Post-Menopause	1 (23)	0.01	14.99

*Number of patients expressing Survivin DeltaEx3 versus total patients in the respective group (in parenthesis). AD: absolute median deviation. Kruskall-Wallis test used to test for differences.

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