Table 2.

Pearson’s correlation for docetaxel concentration in the tumour versus the skin; plasma docetaxel pharmacokinetics versus skin docetaxel concentrations.

	Pearson’s Correlation	Significance (2-Tailed)
Tumour TDx vs. skin TDx	0.224	0.342
Tumour RDx vs. skin RDx	0.220	0.351
Tumour Cd vs. skin Cd	0.110	0.663
AUCinf TDx vs. skin TDx	0.351	0.129
AUCinf RDx vs. skin RDx	0.477	0.034
AUCinf Cd vs. skin Cd	0.441	0.052
Cmax TDx vs. skin TDx	0.322	0.166
Cmax RDx vs. skin RDx	0.288	0.218
Cmax Cd vs. skin Cd	0.478	0.033

Abbreviations; total docetaxel (TDx), released docetaxel (RDx), conventional docetaxel (Cd).