Table II.

Association between the expression of four miRNAs in FFPE samples and the clinicopathological characteristics of the tumor from 45 NSCLC patients.

	miR-21-5p		miR-30e-5p		miR-363-3p		miR-623
Variable (N, %)	PC	P-value	PC	P-value	PC	P-value	PC	P-value
Sex	−0.079	0.605	0.037	0.808	0.098	0.520	0.098	0.520
Male (73)
Female (26)
Age	−0.131	0.388	0.048	0.754	0.127	0.407	0.068	0.655
≤60 (26)
>60 (63)
Histological classification	−0.075	0.625	0.125	0.413	−0.150	0.327	−0.087	0.570
SQC (46)
ADC (54)
Other (0)
Stage	0.150	0.326	−0.115	0.451	0.146	0.338	0.033	0.828
I (44)
II, III, IV (56)
Lymph node	0.066	0.664	−0.084	0.584	0.216	0.154	−0.077	0.614
Positive (36)
Negative (64)
Tumor size	−0.003	0.987	−0.124	0.419	0.177	0.224	0.079	0.608
0–3 cm (60)
>3 cm (40)
Differentiation	0.274	0.069	0.376a	0.011b	0.203	0.180	0.013	0.930
Poorly (36)
Moderately (40)
High (24)

NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; PC, Pearson's correlation fact; SQC, squamous cell carcinoma; ADC, adenocarcinoma.

^aPC>0.3;

^bP<0.05.