Table 2 Results of immunostaining

From: The ErbB signalling pathway: protein expression and prognostic value in epithelial ovarian cancer

 

EGFR

pEGFR

HER-2/neu

pAKT

pERK

PTEN

Primary tumours (n=232)

 Evaluablea

228

228

230

228

222

224

 Positive

16 (7.0%)

27 (11.8%)

12 (5.2%)

19 (8.3%)

82 (36.9%)

155 (69.2%)

 Negative

212 (93.0%)

201 (88.2%)

218 (94.8%)

209 (91.7%)

140 (63.1%)

69 (30.8%)

Second look (n=26)

 Evaluablea

22

22

22

21

20

19

 Positive

4 (18.2%)

5 (22.7%)

1 (4.5%)

4 (19.0%)

13 (65.0%)

16 (84.2%)

 Negative

18 (81.8%)

17 (77.3%)

21 (95.5%)

17 (81.0%)

7 (35.0%)

3 (15.8%)

P-valueb

0.317

0.317

1.000

0.317

0.020

0.655

Recurrent disease (n=19)

 Evaluablea

19

19

18

18

19

18

 Positive

2 (10.5%)

3 (15.8%)

2 (11.1%)

3 (16.7%)

8 (42.1%)

17 (94.4%)

 Negative

17 (89.5%)

16 (84.2%)

16 (88.9%)

15 (83.3%)

11 (57.9%)

1 (5.6%)

P-valuec

0.317

0.564

0.157

0.317

0.317

0.317

  1. Bold signifies P<0.05.
  2. aNumber of evaluable cases (cases with <2 evaluable cores were excluded from the analysis).
  3. bP-value from Wilcoxon rank sum test for comparison of protein expression between tumour samples from primary surgery and from second look.
  4. cP-value from Wilcoxon rank sum test for comparison of protein expression between tumour samples from primary surgery and surgery for recurrent disease.