Table II.

NF-κB and SUV_max Associations

	n	NF-κB† p-value	n	SUVmax‡ p-value
Age (years)	345	0.40	88	0.34
Ethnicity*	339	0.97	87	0.28
Sex*	339	0.13	88	0.79
Smoking Status*	307	0.79	86	0.006
N stage (AJCC VII)	343	0.06	88	0.06
TNM Stage (AJCC VII)*	339	0.02	88	0.02
Tumor Size (cm)	342	0.19	88	0.03
Tumor Grade*	317	0.35	84	0.002
Histology*	339	0.02	88	0.046
Tumor Invasion	332	0.01	85	0.04
LDHA†	341	0.26	89	0.40

Associations are shown in bold when significant and shaded when both biomarkers were significant. n = number assessed for calculation.

^*See Table 1 for method of categorizing analytic variables on left.

^†IHC for NF-κB and LDHA expression stratified by high (moderate & high IHC staining combined) or low expression.

^‡Threshold of 2.5 for SUV_max.