Ki-67 Labeling Index in Primary Invasive Breast Cancer from Sudanese Patients: A Pilot Study
Table 4
Relationships between the different clinical/pathological variables of the studied breast cancer patients.
Ki-67 LI*
Tumor grade
Tumor size
ER
PR
HER-2/neu
Age
Breast cancer subtypes
CK5/6
Tumor grade
0.293 ◊
0.021
#
Tumor size
−0.195
−0.098
0.162
0.487
ER
0.102
0.079
0.181
0.431
0.541
0.195
PR
0.050
0.083
0.698
0.555
<0.001
HER-2/neu
−0.098
−0.163
0.023
0.449
0.204
0.872
Age
−0.083
0.198
−0.077
0.064
0.037
−0.112
0.612
0.220
0.657
0.693
0.823
0.492
Breast cancer subtypes
−0.011
0.109
0.126
0.931
0.436
<0.001
<0.001
<0.001
0.437
CK5/6
−0.139
−0.160
0.095
−0.066
0.070
−0.229
0.298
0.229
0.517
0.623
0.685
0.084
CK17
−0.077
−0.125
0.056
−0.148
−0.143
−0.088
−0.278
−0.111
0.246
0.557
0.341
0.694
0.258
0.276
0.502
0.091
0.398
0.067
*Ki-67 LI as continuous variable ◊Spearman correlation coefficient (Spearman's rho); #P value of Spearman rank correlation test, significant correlations were marked in bold.