Table 1.

Statistical results of FLIP_L expression in 79 liver cancer specimens

	N	-	+to+++	P-value
Total	79	24	55
Sex				0.605*
Male	66	20	46
Female	13	4	9
Age at diagnosis, years				0.437**
<60	61	18	35
≥60	18	6	20
TNM stage				0.015**
I	22	12	10
II	40	11	29
III	17	1	16

Abbreviation: TNM tumor node metastasis. *P-value when expression levels were compared using Fisher’ exact test; **P-value when expression levels were compared using the Kruskal-Wallis test