Table 2.
Breast cancer tissues show more positive stainings of 1+, 2+/3+, and 1+/2+/3+ of constitutively active p-Stat3 and expressed IL-17 than ABA tissues
| Characte-ristics | Total | Negative | Positive Combinations | |||||
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| n (%) | n (%) | P | n (%) | P | n (%) | P | ||
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| BC | 379 | 24 (6.3) | 209 (55.1) | < 0.001 | 146 (38.5) | < 0.001 | 355 (93.6) | < 0.001 |
| ABA | 245 | 93 (37.9) | 85 (34.7) | 67 (27.3) | 152 (62.0) | |||
| IL-17 | ||||||||
| BC | 379 | 16 (4.2) | 130 (34.3) | < 0.001 | 233 (61.5) | < 0.001 | 363 (95.8) | < 0.001 |
| ABA | 245 | 36 (14.7) | 82 (33.4) | 127 (51.8) | 209 (85.3) | |||
Note: BC, breast cancer. ABA, adjacent breast adenosis. Positive combinations were compared with negatives (0) for pStat3 and IL-17 in each category, respectively, using chi-square method.