The number of polyploid giant cancer cells and epithelial-mesenchymal transition-related proteins are associated with invasion and metastasis in human breast cancer

Table 3 The differences of E-cadherin, N-cadherin, and vimentin expression between group I and group II

	Group	Number	E-cadherin	N-cadherin	vimentin
Primary breast tumor with metastasis	I	52	9.67 ± 0.34	0.96 ± 0.19	1.96 ± 0.24
Corresponding metastatic tumor	II	52	8.38 ± 0.34	1.81 ± 0.28	3.02 ± 0.35
Z			−2.713	−2.856	−2.347
P			0.007	0.004	0.019

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