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. 2021 Jun 7;11:11949. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90570-3

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Stromal ALDH1 expression in premalignant lesions predict future tumor development. (A) Stromal ALDH1 expression showed a step-wise decrease from normal endometrium to endometrial hyperplasia to atypical hyperplasia to endometrial cancer (Spearman rho = − 0.28, p = 5.9e−25). (B) Stromal ALDH1 expression reduced the likelihood of patients to develop cancer. Kaplan–Meier survival plot showing higher stromal ALDH1 expression (> 50% of cells) versus lower expression in hyperplastic lesions with or without atypia: difference in median time to cancer diagnosis 129 months vs 69 months, HR = 0.39, p = 0.012. E) Patients with ALDH1 positivity in the epithelium and low immunostaining in stroma (< 50%) also showed shorter times to cancer diagnosis compared to others (median time interval 6 months vs 129 months, p = 5.67e−06).