Table 2.

Direct, Indirect and Total Effects Obtained by SEM

	Cellular/inflammatory factors in Breast Cancer			Cellular/inflammatory factors in Thyroid Cancer
Risk Factor	Direct	Indirect	Total	Direct	Indirect	Total
HPV† proteins	0.426*	0.123	0.549*	NA	NA	NA
EVB‡ proteins	0.504*	0.30*	0.804*	0.411*	0.278*	0.789*

†, Human papilloma virus; ‡, Epstein-Barr virus; Data presented as path standardized coefficients (β) for each cell; *, effect indicated as statistically significant at level of 0.05 (P-values <0.05); NA, Not applicable