Table 3.

Associations between PKCα, PKCδ, and PKCε intensity and clinicopathological variables in cohort I and II.

Cohort	I			II
Variable	PKCα	PKCδ	PKCε	PKCα	PKCε
NHG
ρ	0.401	-0.049	-0.029	0.247	-0.011
p	0.001	0.719	0.833	<0.001	0.863
n	60	57	55	249	263
Estrogen receptor
ρ	-0.482	0.210	-0.016	-0.334	0.068
p	<0.001	0.120	0.907	<0.001	0.273
n	59	56	54	244	261
Progesterone receptor
ρ	-0.402	-0.081	-0.216	-0.280	0.062
p	0.002	0.554	0.120	<0.001	0.342
n	58	55	53	223	240
Ki-67 positivity
ρ	0.535	0.229	0.280	0.295	-0.056
p	<0.001	0.144	0.069	<0.001	0.363
n	46	42	43	244	261
Nodal status
ρ	-0.027	0.095	-0.002	0.029	0.028
p	0.842	0.495	0.987	0.666	0.667
n	56	54	52	224	233
Distant metastasis
ρ	0.159	0.162	-0.064	0.090	0.037
p	0.226	0.227	0.642	0.159	0.556
n	60	57	55	247	261

ρ: Pearson's correlation coefficient. p < 0.05 in bold. n: number of tumor samples.