Table 1.

Patients characteristics and AKIP1 expression

Characteristic		Total	AKIP1		p
			Low	High
Age	≤50 y	50	28	22	0.728
	>50 y	100	53	47
Side	Left	79	46	33	0.990
	Right	71	35	36
Tumor stage	I	70	50	20	<0.001
	II-IV	80	31	49
Tumor size	≤2 cm	71	45	26	0.029
	>2 cm	79	36	43
Differentiation	1/2	45	26	19	0.543
	3	105	55	50
Histological type	DC	128	71	57	0.384
	others	22	10	12
LN metastasis	No	71	47	24	0.004
	Yes	79	34	45

DC: ductal carcinoma; LN: lymph nodes.