Table 2.
Relationship between the expression of apoptosis-related proteins and subtypes of adenocarcinoma
| Subtype | Bax |
p53 |
Galectin-3 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low (%) | High (%) | P valuea | Low (%) | High (%) | P valuea | Low (%) | High (%) | P valuea | |
| Acinar | 38 (70) | 22 (61) | 0.094 | 42 (67) | 18 (67) | 0.093 | 21 (78) | 39 (62) | 0.622 |
| BAC | 6 (11) | 10 (28) | 12 (19) | 4 (15) | 3 (11) | 13 (21) | |||
| Papillary | 3 (6) | 3 (8) | 6 (10) | 0 (0) | 1 (4) | 5 (8) | |||
| Solidb | 7 (13) | 1 (3) | 3 (5) | 5 (19) | 2 (7) | 6 (10) | |||
BAC, Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. aFisher’s exact test. bIncluding one patient with signet-ring adenocarcinoma.