International Journal of Endocrinology

Research Article

CTLA-4 and PD-1 Ligand Gene Expression in Epithelial Thyroid Cancers

Table 4

Results from Fisher’s exact test to evaluate the association of clinicopathological features and the following groups: BRAF^WT (38 patients) and BRAF^V600E (38 patients).


	BRAF^WT	BRAF^V600E	value

Gender
Male			1.000
Female			1.000

Age (y/o)
Medium value	41.36	52.17

Hystology
Classical variant			0.046
Follicular variant			0.046

pT
T_1-2			0.100
T_3-4			0.100

pN
N₀			0.357
N₁			0.357

TNM stage
I-II			0.017
III-IV			0.017

Recurrence
No			0.569
Yes			0.569

Other PTC variants were excluded because of their small number. Information about recurrence was not available for 1 patient in group 1 and 3 patients in group 2.