Table 1.

MPPED2 protein expression evaluated by immunohistochemistry in breast cancer (BC)

Histological Type	MPPED2 Staining Score a, n (%)
	0	1+	2+	3+
Normal adjacent tissues (n = 6)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	6 (100)
Primary BC tissue (n = 38)	3 (7.8)	10 (26.3)	12 (31.5)	13 (34.2)
BC metastatic carcinoma (n = 10)	0 (0)	3 (30)	4 (40)	3 (30)

^a 0, no signal; 1+, weak signal; 2+, moderate signal; 3+, strong signal.