Characteristics | Ligands in TEpC | ||||||||||||
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OPG | TRAIL | RANKL | SDF-1 | IL-6 | CCL-2 | ||||||||
High expression % | p | High expression % | p | High expression % | p | High expression % | p | High expression % | p | High expression % | p | ||
Age (years) | <50 | 10.0 | >0.999 | 2.2 | 0.657 | 70.0 | >0.999 | 40.0 | 0.153 | 22.2 | 0.464 | 22.2 | 0.110 |
≥50 | 15.7 | 16.0 | 73.1 | 67.3 | 39.2 | 4.1 | |||||||
Tumor size (cm) | <2 | 13.9 | >0.999 | 17.1 | >0.999 | 65.9 | 0.114 | 70.4 | 0.044* | 42.9 | 0.236 | 7.3 | >0.999 |
≥2 | 11.8 | 17.6 | 88.2 | 41.2 | 23.5 | 6.2 | |||||||
Histological grade | G1 | 20.0 | 0.713 | 21.4 | 0.744 | 46.7 | 0.073 | 80.0 | 0.093 | 42.9 | 0.307 | 6.7 | 0.357 |
G2 | 10.0 | 20.0 | 80.9 | 66.7 | 45.0 | 0.0 | |||||||
G3 | 12.5 | 13.0 | 79.2 | 45.8 | 25.0 | 13.0 | |||||||
HER2/neu status | Negative | 8.1 | 0.239 | 18.9 | 0.733 | 76.3 | 0.388 | 63.2 | >0.999 | 39.5 | 0.780 | 2.9 | 0.287 |
Positive | 21.7 | 14.3 | 65.2 | 60.9 | 33.33 | 13.6 | |||||||
ER status | Negative | 13.3 | >0.999 | 7.7 | 0.429 | 80.0 | 0.523 | 40.0 | 0.064 | 42.9 | 0.753 | 20.0 | 0.049* |
Positive | 13.3 | 20.0 | 69.6 | 69.6 | 35.6 | 2.4 | |||||||
PR status | Negative | 14.3 | >0.999 | 8.3 | 0.444 | 78.6 | 0.737 | 50.0 | 0.351 | 38.5 | >0.999 | 7.1 | >0.999 |
Positive | 13.0 | 19.6 | 70.2 | 66.0 | 37.0 | 7.0 | |||||||
Regional lymph nodes | Negative | 11.6 | 0.666 | 25.0 | 0.048* | 67.4 | 0.352 | 58.1 | 0.555 | 39.0 | 0.761 | 4.7 | 0.349 |
Positive | 20.0 | 0.0 | 81.2 | 68.7 | 31.2 | 14.3 | |||||||
Metastatic occurrence | Negative | 20.9 | 0.180 | 21.4 | 0.664 | 70.4 | 0.707 | 59.1 | >0.999 | 30.2 | >0.999 | 2.4 | 0.109 |
Positive | 18.2 | 10.0 | 81.8 | 63.6 | 40.0 | 18.2 | |||||||
Local relapse | Negative | 6.1 | 0.330 | 20.8 | 0.576 | 70.0 | 0.307 | 60.0 | >0.999 | 38.8 | 0.284 | 4.3 | 0.266 |
Positive | 20.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 60.0 | 0.0 | 20.0 |