Table 2.

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

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

* Spearman rank correlation test

** Wilcoxon rank test

*** One-way ANOVA

Abbreviations: SBR, Scarff Bloom and Richardson.