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Table 4 Correlation to Ca 15-3.

From: Gene expression of circulating tumour cells and its correlation with tumour stage in breast cancer patients

Analyzed gene

Ca 15-3 status

p-value

 

negative

positive

 

ga733.2

3/50 6%

4/9 44.4%

0.001

muc-1

4/50 8%

5/9 55.6%

< 0.001

spdef

2/46 4.3%

4/8 50%

< 0.001

mgb1

1/43 2.3%

3/8 37.5%

0.001

ga733.2 / muc-1

5/50 10%

6/9 66.7%

< 0.001

simple positive

7/43 16.3%

7/8 87.5%

< 0.001

twofold positive

3/43 6.9%

6/8 75%

< 0.001

  1. Correlation between gene expression and presence of elevated Ca 15-3 levels in PB. Simple and twofold positivity of the gene profile ga733.2/muc-1/mgb1/spdef are shown (Pearson's bivariate correlation).