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. 2018 May 22;18:582. doi: 10.1186/s12885-018-4445-z

Table 3.

The correlation between number of metastases in the lungs of tumour-bearing mice and Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Serum Amyloid A (SAA) and haptoglobin, as assessed via the Spearman correlation coefficient test

The pair of parameters R Spearman p
Number of metastases & IL-6 0.655558 0.000014
Number of metastases & SAA 0.554662 0.000447
Number of metastases & Haptoglobin 0.814386 0.013844