Table 1

Results for 7 antibodies showing significant differences between both lung tumor patients vs. normal controls and lung tumor patients vs. COPD patients.


Fold difference in means
P-values from 1-way ANOVA
P-value from 2-sample T-test

Antibody
Tumor / Normal
Tumor / COPD
Tumor vs. Normal
Tumor vs. COPD
Tumor vs. Others

CRP
13.6
13.0
1.1 × 10-9
2.2 × 10-10
4.1 × 10-12
SAA
1.99
2.15
1.8 × 10-7
1.7 × 10-9
2.5 × 10-10
MUC1
1.30
1.42
3.3 × 10-3
4.3 × 10-5
5.3 × 10-5
AAT (1)
1.34
1.35
9.1 × 10-4
3.1 × 10-4
7.9 × 10-5
AAT (2)
1.42
1.33
1.1 × 10-3
3.7 × 10-3
5.2 × 10-4
Transferrin
0.73
0.71
2.7 × 10-4
2.3 × 10-5
7.2 × 10-6
Gelsolin
0.77
0.77
5.8 × 10-3
4.7 × 10-3
1.4 × 10-3

Gao et al. BMC Cancer 2005 5:110   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-5-110