Expression and clinical implications of basic leucine zipper ATF-like transcription factor 2 in breast cancer

BMC Cancer

Table 1 Correlations between BATF2 expressions and clinical characteristics in BC patients

Clinicopathological features	Total cases	BATF2 expression (+)	BATF2 expression (−)	χ2 value	P value
Age (years)	145			0.061	0.805
≥ 50	108	50	58
< 50	37	18	19
Tumor size	141			0.743	0.389
≥ 2 cm	123	55	68
< 2 cm	18	10	8
Lymph node invasion	139			0.348	0.556
Yes	69	34	35
No	70	31	39
Clinical stage	140			13.964	< 0.0001
Stage I + II	94	54	40
Stage III	46	11	35
Histopathological grade	143			1.631	0.202
I-II/II	74	39	35
II-III/III	69	29	40

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