Table I.

Association between miR-217 expression and clinicopathological variables of colorectal cancer patients.

		miR-217 expression
Characteristics	No. of patients	Low	High	P-value
No. of patients	121	53	68
Age, years				0.14
<50	71	32	39
≥50	50	21	29
Gender				0.10
Male	69	28	41
Female	52	25	27
MTD, cm				0.08
<5	80	38	42
≥5	41	15	26
Tumor location				0.11
Rectum	57	27	30
Colon	64	26	38
Depth of invasion				0.14
T1/T2	38	18	20
T3/T4	83	35	48
Survival status				0.01
Alive	23	5	18
Dead	98	48	50
TNM stage				0.09
II	49	24	25
III/IV	72	29	43

TNM, T category describes the primary tumor site; N category describes the regional lymph node involvement; M category describes the presence or otherwise of distant metastatic spread; MTD, mean tumor diameter; miR, microRNA.