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Table 2 Association of clinico-pathological factors with uPA and PAI-1 mRNA expression.

From: Prognostic significance of urokinase plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 mRNA expression in lymph node- and hormone receptor-positive breast cancer

Variable

uPA

PAI-1

 

p-value

p-value

Age *

0.29

0.3

Tumor size *

0.93

0.95

Lymph nodes *

0.4

0.2

Age categories **

0.2

0.65

< 50 years

  

≥ 50 years

  

Histological Type **

0.97

1.0

Ductal

  

Other

  

Histological grade ***

0.76

0.89

SBRI

  

SBRII

  

SBRIII

  
  1. * Spearman rank correlation test
  2. ** Wilcoxon rank test
  3. *** One-way ANOVA
  4. Abbreviations: SBR, Scarff Bloom and Richardson.