Table 1.
Tumor grade, size and stage in compare to immunohistochemicals markers (mEGFR, nEGFR, Cyclin D1) and EGFR FISH in CRC
| Grade | pT | Tumor stage | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parameters | Total | low | high | p-value | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | p-value | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | p-value |
| mEGFR | 0.042 | 0.506 | 0.769 | |||||||||||
| neg./week | 49 | 47 | 2 | 2 | 35 | 12 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 23 | 0 | |||
| moderate | 64 | 54 | 10 | 0 | 39 | 23 | 2 | 22 | 9 | 33 | 0 | |||
| strong | 22 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 1 | |||
| nEGFR | 0.427 | 0.452 | 0.943 | |||||||||||
| neg./week | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |||
| moderate | 49 | 44 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 20 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 22 | 1 | |||
| strong | 77 | 68 | 9 | 0 | 55 | 21 | 1 | 32 | 4 | 41 | 0 | |||
| Cyclin D1 | 0.363 | 0.335 | 0.588 | |||||||||||
| neg./week | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||
| moderate | 51 | 46 | 5 | 2 | 24 | 22 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 25 | 1 | |||
| strong | 76 | 67 | 9 | 0 | 55 | 21 | 0 | 33 | 5 | 38 | 0 | |||
| EGFR FISH | 0.486 | 0.713 | 0.178 | |||||||||||
| ≤ 2.0 - 2.49 | 117 | 106 | 12 | 2 | 78 | 34 | 3 | 47 | 14 | 56 | 0 | |||
| 2.5 - 2.93 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | |||
| ≥ 2.94 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||
| Total | 135 | 121 | 14 | 2 | 86 | 44 | 3 | 51 | 17 | 66 | 1 | |||
CRC, colorectal carcinoma
mEGFR, membrane EGFR
nEGFR, nuclear EGFR
test - Spearman rank correlation coefficient