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Table 5 Correlation between CTCs and expression of TWIST1 and SLUG in primary tumor

From: Relationship between circulating tumor cells and epithelial to mesenchymal transition in early breast cancer

	SLUG^a		TWIST1^a
	Cancer	Stroma	Cancer	Stroma
CTC Epithelial^b
Spearman rho’	0.03	0.13	−0.07	0.02
p-value^c	0.79	0.21	0.48	0.82
CTC EMT^b
Spearman rho’	0.00	−0.09	−0.01	0.02
p-value^c	0.97	0.41	0.89	0.88
CTC Any^b
Spearman rho’	0.04	0.02	−0.06	0.06
p-value^c	0.73	0.87	0.55	0.59

^aProtein expression evaluated semi quantitatively by immunohistochemistry
^bCTC detected by quantitative RT-PCR
^cSpearman’s correlation test

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