Table 1.

'Cancer-to-normal' ratio of EDB-FN expression in carcinomas of various organs

Organ	Number of cancer samples	Number of normal samples	'cancer-to-normal' ratio (mean ± std. dev., A.U.)	Cancer vs normal,p value
Brain	2517	723	1.420 ± 0.229	< 0.0001
Head and Neck	360	119	1.561 ± 0.358	< 0.0001
Oral	309	167	1.296 ± 0.323	< 0.0001
Thyroid	338	197	1.374 ± 0.305	< 0.0001
Lung	2502	650	1.195 ± 0.279	< 0.0001
Breast	5516	471	1.284 ± 0.253	< 0.0001
Gastric	934	110	1.168 ± 0.152	< 0.0001
Liver	524	322	1.077 ± 0.206	< 0.0001
Pancreatic	240	98	1.325 ± 0.465	< 0.0001
Colon	2449	500	1.109 ± 0.217	< 0.0001
Adrenal	355	50	0.996 ± 0.171	nonsignificant
Renal	504	195	1.181 ± 0.196	< 0.0001
Ureter	58	45	0.919 ± 1.058	nonsignificant
Ovarian	1146	92	1.265 ± 0.324	< 0.0001
Uterine	387	192	1.103 ± 0.329	< 0.05
Prostate	257	75	1.419 ± 0.528	< 0.0001
Skin	454	488	1.042 ± 0.173	< 0.0001

Statistical analysis: Mann-Whitney test. A.U: arbitrary unit; std. dev: standard deviation.