Table 2. The expression of hTERT in different cervical lesions.
| Cervical specimen | Case | The degree of immunoreactivity (%) |
H | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (−) | (+) | (++) | (+++) | ||||
| chronic cervictitisa | 11 | 2 (18.2) | 8 (72.7) | 1 (9.1) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| CINIb | 51 | 0 (0.0) | 27 (52.9) | 13 (25.5) | 11 (21.6) | ||
| CINIIc | 19 | 1 (5.3) | 4 (21.1) | 6 (31.6) | 8 (42.1) | ||
| CINIIId | 27 | 4 (14.8) | 4 (14.8) | 8 (29.6) | 11 (40.7) | ||
| cervical cancere | 164 | 8 (4.9) | 67 (40.9) | 73 (44.5) | 16 (9.8) | 52.659 | 0.000 |
*,a,dp = 0.001; a,ep = 0.014; b,ep = 0.004.
(−), IHIHC score of 0–1; (+), IHC score of 2–4; (++), IHC score of 5–8; (+++) score of ≥9.