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Table 2.

Investigation of the expression of various ER related epitopes in breast tumors in vivo due to tissue collection time

	Time cut-off		ER (LBA)^a		PR (LBA)^a		ER (IHC)^b		P-118ER(IHC)^b		P-167ER (IHC)^b
Time (min)	<30	≥30	<30	≥30	<30	≥30	<30	≥30	<30	≥30	<30	≥30
N	51	131	48	112	49	112	24	75	20	68	21	58
Median	17	61	43.5	9.2	29	14.8	225	225	62.5	25	20	5
Mean ± SD	18.7 ± 6.5	76.5 ± 45.5	44.2 ± 51.1	31.1 ± 45.7	54.7 ± 89.6	33.5 ± 56.7
P ^c	<0.0001		0.0039		0.028		0.92		0.17		0.30

fmol/mg protein

H-score

Mann-Whitney two-tailed