Table 1.
Clinicopathological features of 38 patients with primary breast cancer subjected to cDNA microarray and RT-PCR analyses
| Number of patients | ||||
| Parameters | High SUV group (n = 24) |
Low SUV group (n = 14) |
p-value | |
| SUV | Mean± SD | 7.2± 2.5 | 2.3± 0.9 | <0.0001 |
| Age | Mean± SD | 56.9± 14.1 | 59.8± 10.3 | 0.5 |
| T-factor | T1 | 13 | 9 | 0.5 |
| T2 | 11 | 5 | ||
| N-factor | N0 | 16 | 10 | 0.8 |
| N+ | 8 | 4 | ||
| Nuclear grade | 1,2 | 10 | 11 | 0.06 |
| 3 | 14 | 3 | ||
| ER | - | 7 | 1 | 0.1 |
| + | 17 | 13 | ||
| HER2 | 0,1+,2+ (FISH-) | 19 | 13 | 0.3 |
| 3+ or FISH+ | 5 | 1 | ||
Abbreviations; SUV, Standardized uptake value; ER, Estrogen receptor; HER2, c-erbB2; FISH, Fluorescence in situ hybridization; SD, standard deviation