Table 1.

Clinicopathological characteristics and expression of miR-98 in breast cancer

characteristics	cases	miR98 expression level
		Low	high	p
Age (years)
≤40	18	12	6	0.324
40-55	33	15	18
>55	47	23	24
Histological grade				0.599
I	7	3	4
II	39	18	21
III	52	29	23
Tumor stage				0.548
I	18	6	12
II	11	4	7
III	5	3	2
N stage				0.628
0	58	28	30
1-3	22	12	10
4-9	9	6	3
>10	8	3	5
ER status				0.513
negative	40	22	18
positive	58	28	30
PR status				0.529
negative	44	24	20
positive	54	26	28