Table III.

Serum miR-21 and miR-145 levels according to stage.

	Stage I+II	Stage III
Variables	Median	Median	aP-value
miR-21			0.006
Pre-treatment	0.105	0.007
Post-treatment	0.092	0.381
bP-value	>0.05	0.04
miR-145			>0.05
Pre-treatment	3.5	6.52
Post-treatment	2.73	3.08
bP-value	>0.05	>0.05

^aMann-Whitney U test

^bWilcoxon signed-ranks test.