Table III.

Expression of EBI3 and p35 in patients with prostate cancer with different clinicopathological characteristics.

	EBI3 expression				p35 expression
Clinicopathological characteristic	Mean ± standard deviation	Mean ± standard deviation	n	t/F-value	P-value	t/F-value	P-value
Position			2.863	0.0052		2.850	0.0054a
Cancer	90	8.92±2.52			6.47±2.67
Adjacent to cancer	90	7.87±2.94			5.42±2.98
Age, years			0.357	0.305		1.031	0.722
<65	21	9.10±2.36			7.57±3.14
≥65	69	8.87±2.58			6.09±2.96
Gleason score			F=9.644	0.0002		F=9.300	0.0002b
≤6	29	7.38±2.67			5.24±3.27
7	34	8.82±1.91			6.47±2.21
8–10	27	9.96±2.01			7.93±1.96

^aP<0.05

^bP<0.001. EBI3, Epstein-barr virus-induced gene 3; p35, interleukin-12A.