Table 1.

The association between IL-6 and patients’ characteristics in soft tissue tumors.

Variables		Benign tumors	STS	p value
		(n = 40)	(n = 59)
Age	Mean (years)	60	66	0.0003*
Gender	Male	25	32	0.54
	Female	15	27
Tumor depth	Superficial	7	10	0.99
	Deep	33	49
Tumor size	Mean (cm)	6	10	0.0006*
	>5 cm	25	50	0.02
	<5 cm	15	9
IL-6	Mean (pg/ml)	3.89	35.9	<0.0001*