Local iron homeostasis in the breast ductal carcinoma microenvironment

BMC Cancer

Table 5 Correlation table between tumor size and TFR1 expression

	TFR1 (Mean ± SEM)
Clinicopathological variable	EC	Corr. Coeff. Sig	Ly	Corr. Coeff. Sig	M0	Corr. Coeff. Sig
Tumor size	n = 96	p = 0.027	n = 76	p = 0.041	n = 76	p = 0.017
T1	6.69 ± 0.56		3.37 ± 0.31		5.39 ± 0.47
T2	7.83 ± 0.93		4.99 ± 0.57		6.94 ± 0.63
> T3	9.00 ± 4.83		3.47 ± 0.65		7.00 ± 1.34

Abbreviations: EC Epithelial Cells, Ly Lymphocytes, M0 Macrophages, TFR1 Transferrin Receptor 1, SEM Standard Error of the Mean

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