Table 2. Correlation among Snail, MDM2 and E-cadherin expression markers in human breast cancer [n (%)].
| n | Snail expression | Spearman correlation | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| negative | positive | value(r) | P value | ||
| MDM2 | |||||
| negative | 32 | 23 (71.9) | 9 (28.1) | 0.354 | 0.005 |
| positive | 30 | 11 (36.7) | 19 (63.3) | ||
| E-cadherin | |||||
| negative | 18 | 2 (11.1) | 16 (88.9) | −0.562 | 0.000 |
| positive | 44 | 32 (72.7) | 12 (27.3) | ||
The spearman correlation was used to compare the degrees of correlation. Positive numbers reflect direct correlation, and negative numbers reflect inverse correlation.