Table 3. Association between growth hormone receptor (GHR) expression and clinicopathological parameters by using multiple regression models.
| Clinicopathological parameters | GHR |
P | |||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Stage | |||||
| I | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| II | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
| III | 1 | 2 | 9 | 12 | |
| IV | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0.003* |
| Differentiation | |||||
| Well | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| Moderately | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |
| Poorly | 0 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 0.017# |
| PI | 6.17±1.85 | 10.50±1.05 | 13.36±2.41 | 20.50±4.08 | 0.030# |
| AI | 7.33±2.71 | 05.33±1.86 | 04.50±1.02 | 01.63±1.36 | 0.034# |
AI: apoptotic index; GHR: growth hormone receptor; PI: proliferation index. *P < 0.01, #P < 0.05.