Table 3 Comparison of association between immunohistochemical expression of vimentin and α-SMA in benign breast and paired cases of primary invasive breast cancer or metastasis to axillary lymph node

From: GSTPi-positive tumour microenvironment-associated fibroblasts are significantly associated with GSTPi-negative cancer cells in paired cases of primary invasive breast cancer and axillary lymph node metastases

 

Vimentin-positive fibroblast

 

α -SMA-positive fibroblast

Negative

Heterogeneous

Homogeneous

Association of expression (%) a

Benign breast

0

 Negative

0

0

11

 

 Heterogeneous

0

0

0

 

 Homogeneous

0

0

0

 

Primary breast cancer

95

 Negative

0

0

2

 

 Heterogeneous

0

0

6

 

 Homogeneous

0

0

31

 

Breast cancer metastasis to LN

92

 Negative

0

1

2

 

 Heterogeneous

0

0

1

 

 Homogeneous

0

0

35

 
  1. Abbreviation: α-SMA=α-smooth muscle actin.
  2. aAssociation between the expression of vimentin and α-SMA in benign breast and paired cases of primary invasive breast cancer or metastasis to lymph nod.
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