Table 1. Correlation between HOXA-AS2 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of CRC patients.
| Characteristics | Number (n=69) | Percent |
HOXA-AS2 |
Chi-squared test P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | ||||
| Age (years) | 0.053 | ||||
| <60 | 38 | 55.1 | 15 | 23 | |
| ⩾60 | 31 | 44.9 | 20 | 11 | |
| Gender | 0.797 | ||||
| Male | 47 | 68.1 | 23 | 24 | |
| Female | 22 | 31.9 | 12 | 10 | |
| Maximum tumor size | 0.002a | ||||
| <5 cm | 37 | 53.6 | 12 | 25 | |
| ⩾5 cm | 32 | 46.4 | 23 | 9 | |
| Location | 0.332 | ||||
| Colon | 40 | 58.0 | 18 | 22 | |
| Rectum | 29 | 42.0 | 17 | 12 | |
| Depth of tumor | 0.808 | ||||
| T1 and T2 | 34 | 49.3 | 16 | 17 | |
| T3 and T4 | 35 | 50.7 | 19 | 16 | |
| Tumor stage | 0.004a | ||||
| I and II | 21 | 30.4 | 5 | 16 | |
| III and IV | 48 | 69.6 | 30 | 18 | |
| Lymph node metastasis | 0.004a | ||||
| Negative | 21 | 30.4 | 5 | 16 | |
| Positive | 48 | 69.6 | 30 | 18 | |
a
P<0.05 was considered significant (Chi-square test between two groups).