Table 1.

Correlation between clinicopathological features and the expression of MRCCAT1 and NPR3

Clinicopathological features	Patients n = 68	MRCCAT1 expression mean rank	P value	NPR3 expression mean rank	P value
Age (y)			0.091		0.324
< 60	43	31.41		32.70
≥ 60	25	39.82		37.6
Gender			0.397		0.978
Male	49	33.23		34.46
Female	19	37.76		34.41
Tumor size (cm)			0.007**		0.01*
≤ 7	50	30.6		38.19
> 7	18	45.33		24.24
Fuhrman tumor grade			0.001**		0.002**
I-II	41	27.93		40.39
III-IV	27	44.48		25.56
Metastasis			0.008**		0.0001***
Yes	34	40.87		25.53
No	34	28.13		43.47

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001