barely statistically significantp = 0.0459
The association between TGF-βRII and p-Smad2 resulted barely statistically significant (p = 0.0459): only 1 among the 9 p-Smad2 negative patients resulted positive to TGF-βRII and 10 among the 20 p-Smad2 positive resulted positive to TGF-βRII.