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Table 2.

Correlation between grade and TuMs and other clinical variables in breast cancer by using linear regression multivariate analysis (SPSS)

Variable	P	Regression coefficient	95% Confidence interval for regression coefficient
Variable	P	Regression coefficient			Lower bound	Upper bound
TUM1	<0.001	0.783	0.404	1.162
TUM2	0.898	−0.025	−0.418	0.367
TUM3	0.586	−0.111	−0.516	0.294
TuM4	0.353	−0.125	−0.391	0.141
TuM5	0.426	0.120	−0.179	0.420
TuM6	0.405	0.127	−0.174	0.427
TuM7	0.192	−0.184	−0.462	0.094
TuM8	0.337	−0.137	−0.420	0.146
Age	0.197	0.006	−0.003	0.016
Size	0.317	0.003	−0.003	0.009
Node	0.106	0.183	−0.040	0.406
ER	0.091	−0.255	−0.551	0.041
PR	0.020	0.315	0.052	0.579

Variable	P	Regression coefficient	95% Confidence interval for regression coefficient
Variable	P	Regression coefficient			Lower bound	Upper bound
TUM1	<0.001	0.783	0.404	1.162
TUM2	0.898	−0.025	−0.418	0.367
TUM3	0.586	−0.111	−0.516	0.294
TuM4	0.353	−0.125	−0.391	0.141
TuM5	0.426	0.120	−0.179	0.420
TuM6	0.405	0.127	−0.174	0.427
TuM7	0.192	−0.184	−0.462	0.094
TuM8	0.337	−0.137	−0.420	0.146
Age	0.197	0.006	−0.003	0.016
Size	0.317	0.003	−0.003	0.009
Node	0.106	0.183	−0.040	0.406
ER	0.091	−0.255	−0.551	0.041
PR	0.020	0.315	0.052	0.579

NOTE: Besides TuM1, only progesterone receptor is marginally correlated with grade. The positive regression coefficient means that the variable is associated with low grade.

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