Research Article
Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 2 Is Associated with Disease Progression and Poor Prognosis in Breast Cancer
Table 2
The association of serum sFRP2 levels with clinicopathological characteristics in breast cancer patients.
| Characteristics | Number | sFRP2 (, ng/mL) | |
| Patient group | 274 | | <0.0001 | Control group | 147 | | Age (years) | ≤45 | 131 | | 0.2415 | >45 | 143 | | Menopausal status | Premenopausal | 166 | | 0.1815 | Postmenopausal | 108 | | Tumor size (cm) | ≤2 | 79 | | 0.0118 | >2 | 173 | | Histology | IDC | 213 | | 0.8597 | DCIS | 59 | | TNM stage | I+II | 97 | | 0.0023 | III | 155 | | Lymph node metastases | Negative | 133 | | <0.0001 | Positive | 136 | | ER | Negative | 97 | | 0.1572 | Positive | 172 | | PR | Negative | 120 | | 0.5532 | Positive | 149 | | HER2 | Negative | 198 | | 0.3460 | Positive | 71 | | Ki67 | ≤14% | 105 | | 0.0253 | >14% | 164 | |
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