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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 13.
Published in final edited form as: Lung Cancer. 2016 Sep 28;101:104–110. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.09.015

Table 3.

Association of mesothelin expression in thymic epithelial tumors with clinico-pathological data

Mesothelin expression P value
Negative Positive
N (%) N (%)
Sex 0.47
 Male 20(49) 18(60)
 Female 21(51) 12(40)
Race 0.43
 White 30(73) 22(73)
 Black 3(7) 4(13)
 Hispanic 3(7) 0(0)
 Asian 5(12) 3(10)
 Mixed 0(0) 1(3)
Histology <0.0001
 Thymic carcinoma 7(17) 27(90)
 Thymoma 26(63) 3(10)
 Thymic neuroendocrine tumor 8(20) 0
Stage 0.49
 II 0(0) 1(3)
 III 2(5) 2(7)
 IV 39(95) 27(90)