Table I.
Clinical association between D-dimer level and clinicopathological variables of breast cancer patients.
| Cases with low and high D-dimer level, n (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Cases (n=86) | Low | High | P-value |
| Age, years | 1 | |||
| ≥60 | 46 | 35 (76.1) | 11 (23.9) | |
| <60 | 40 | 31 (77.5) | 9 (22.5) | |
| Metastasis | 0.0181 | |||
| Positive | 70 | 20 (28.6) | 50 (71.4) | |
| Negative | 16 | 10 (62.5) | 6 (37.5) | |
| TNM stage | 0.0101 | |||
| I&II | 17 | 11 (64.7) | 6 (35.3) | |
| III&IV | 69 | 20 (28.9) | 49 (71.1) | |
For patients with breast cancer, since there were no male patients it was not possible to perform statistics for male vs. female patients. TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.