Table 1.

Patient characteristics and clinicopathologic correlation of TARBP1 expression levels

Characteristics	Total	TARBP1		P value
		Positive	Negative
Gender				0.731
Male	81	50	31
Female	9	5	4
Age (years)				0.189
≥60	22	11	11
<60	67	44	23
Hepatitis				0.641
HBV/HCV	4	2	2
Negative	86	53	33
Live cirrhosis				0.708
Presence	33	21	12
Absence	57	34	23
Tumor size (cm)				0.318
≥5	53	35	18
<5	36	20	16
AJCC tumor stage				0.004
I	9	3	6
II	48	25	23
III	33	27	6
Clinical stage				0.005
1	11	3	8
2	29	15	14
3	42	32	10

HBV, hepatitis B virus; HCV, hepatitis C virus; AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer.