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

Table 4 The differences of E-cadherin, N-cadherin, and vimentin expression between group I and group III

	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
Primary breast tumor without metastasis	III	52	10.90 ± 0.26	0.46 ± 0.12	0.92 ± 0.15
Z			−2.720	−2.736	−3.545
P			0.007	0.006	0.000

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