Table 3.
Interrelation between Immunoexpression for TNF-α in the Different Tumors Stagings with Education Levels from the Patients Treated at Haroldo Juaçaba Hospital (Ceará Cancer Institute).
| Stage | ↓ TNF-α |
↑ TNF-α |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I/II | III/IV | p-Valor | I/II | III/IV | p-Valor | |
| Education Level | ||||||
| Illiterate/Incomplete | 2 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 21* | 0.033 |
| Primary School | 40.00% | 46.40% | 27.30% | 67.70% | ||
| Completed primary school/High school/ | 3 | 15 | 8* | 10 | ||
| Higher education | 60.00% | 53.60% | 72.70% | 32.30% | ||
*p<0.05. x2 or fisher exact test; Data expressed as absolute frequency and percentage