Androgen receptor mRNA expression is a predictor for recurrence-free survival in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

Table 2 Spearman’s rank-order correlation between each variables

	Sex	Age	T stage	Tumor grade	Tumor size	Number of tumor	Recurrence/Primary	Instillation	AR mRNA expression
Sex	1.000	0.071	−0.006	0.099	−0.126	0.034	0.153	−0.020	−0.174
Age	0.071	1.000	0.056	−0.160	0.063	−0.093	0.056	0.010	−0.009
T stage	−0.006	0.056	1.000	0.432	0.075	0.372	−0.262	0.057	−0.110
Tumor grade	0.099	−0.160	0.432	1.000	0.019	0.373	−0.201	0.392	−0.149
Tumor size	−0.126	0.063	0.075	0.019	1.000	−0.093	−0.200	−0.078	0.188
Number of tumor	0.034	−0.093	0.372	0.373	−0.093	1.000	−0.095	0.492	−0.051
Recurrence/primary	0.153	0.056	−0.262	−0.201	0.200	−0.095	1.000	0.057	−0.110
Instillation	−0.020	0.010	0.057	0.392	−0.078	0.492	0.057	1.000	−0.085
AR mRNA expression	−0.174	−0.009	−0.110	−0.149	0.188	−0.051	−0.110	−0.085	1.000

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