Table 1.

Correlation between the clinicopathologic characteristics and expression of miR-92a in NPC

Characteristics	Total no of patients, n=86	No of patients		P-value
		miR-92a high	miR-92a low
Age (years)
≤45	42	20	22	0.666
>45	44	23	21
Sex
Male	63	30	33	0.465
Female	23	13	10
WHO type
I+II	9	3	6	0.483
III	77	40	37
TNM stage
I+II	28	8	20	0.006*
III+IV	58	35	23
Distant metastasis
No	68	29	39	0.008*
Yes	18	14	4

Note:

^*Statistically significant.

Abbreviations: miR-92a, microRNA-92a; NPC, nasopharyngeal carcinoma; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis; WHO, World Health Organization.