Table 4.

The correlation of expression of TAP1 with immune cell markers.

	TAP1 expression
Immune	IRS Front		IRS Center
markers	rs	P-value	rs	P-value
CD3	0.297	<0.001	0.240	<0.001
CD8	0.215	<0.001	0.154	0.003
FOXP3	0.110	0.035	0.103	0.049
Tbet	0.277	<0.001	0.233	<0.001
NOS2	0.234	<0.001	0.202	<0.001
CD163	0.298	<0.001	0.262	<0.001
CD66b	0.018	0.729	0.012	0.818

r_s, Spearman´s rank correlation coefficient. Total score 3–4, 5–6, 7–12, was used for correlations of CD3, CD8, FOXP3 and Tbet. For NOS2, CD163 and CD66b, score 1–4 at the tumor front was used.