Table 1.

Correlations of pSer727-STAT3 with clinical variables and pTyr705-STAT3 expression

Variables	n	pSer727-STAT3 expression
		Median (%)	Rang (%)	P-value
Gender
Male	53	9	0-59	0.109a
Female	35	5	0-42
KPS
≤ 70	46	8.5	0-59	0.251a
> 70	42	5	0-57
Age				0.735b (r = 0.037)
pTyr705-STAT3 expression				0.000b (r = 0.592)

^aResults Mann-Whitney U test.

^bResults Spearman’s correlation coefficient.