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Table 3 Comparison of tumor Cav-1 expression in 49 paired cases of lung primary and BM according to histology

From: Caveolin-1 enhances brain metastasis of non-small cell lung cancer, potentially in association with the epithelial-mesenchymal transition marker SNAIL

 

BM

P valueb

Low

High

High (%)a

Lung primary

 SQC

  Low

2

7

16/19 (84%)

0.034

  High

1

9

  High (%)a

10/19 (53%)

  

 Non-SQC

  Low

20

1

8/30 (27%)

0.564

  High

2

7

  High (%)a

9/30 (30%)

  
  1. SQC, squamous cell carcinoma
  2. aRepresented as proportion of cases with high Cav-1 expression
  3. bWilcoxon signed ranks test