TABLE 2.
Comparison of cancerous and normal prostate specimensa
| Type of specimen | BKV DNA result
|
TAg result
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. positive | No. negative | Fraction positive | No. positive | No. negative | Fraction positive | |
| Normal | 4 | 11 | 0.27 | 4 | 25 | 0.14 |
| Cancerous | 11 | 3 | 0.79 | 13 | 15 | 0.46 |
a
P values for differences between normal and cancerous specimens, obtained by using the interactive calculation tool for Fisher's exact probability test for 2-by-2 tables (K. J. Preacher and N. E. Briggs [www.quantpsy.org]), were 0.007 for BKV DNA and 0.008 for TAg.