Table 1

Serum BST2 level in normal healthy individuals, non-bone metastatic and bone metastatic breast cancer cases

Serum levels


N

> 0.26

Mean Dev

Std

Min

Max


Normal Healthy Group

14

0 (0%)

0.22

0.05

009

0.26

Non-bone metastatic Group

43

3(7%)

0.24

0.11

0.17

0.52

Bone metastatic Group

43

36(84%)a

0.51b

0.15

0.22

0.81


a: P = 0.0006 (P < 0.001), b: P = 0.02 (P < 0.05)

Cai et al. BMC Cancer 2009 9:102   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-9-102

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