Table 1.

The relationship between miR-150 and clinicopathological characteristics in 157 patients with NSCLC

		miR-150 expression
Parameters	Number of cases	High	Low	P value
Sex	157	81	76
Male	89	49	40	0.31
Female	68	32	36
Age
< 60 years	79	40	39	0.25
≥ 60 years	78	41	37
Smoking
Never	11	1	10	0.38
Current	75	43	32
Former	71	37	34
Tumor Size
< 3 cm	64	22	42	0.08
≥ 3 cm	93	59	34
Lymphatic invasion
Positive	56	37	19	0.04
Negative	101	44	57
Distant metastasis
Positive	35	26	9	0.01
Negative	122	55	67
TNM stage
I/II	88	39	49	0.02
III/IV	69	42	27
Tumor differentiation
High/moderate	106	59	47	0.09
Poor	51	22	29
Surgical margins
Free	131	66	65	0.21
Not free	26	15	11