Table 1.

Correlation between AKIP1 expression and clinico-pathological characteristics of NSCLC patients

		AKIP1 expression
Parameters	n	Low	High	p
Total	139	58	81
Age (years)
<55	51	19	32	0.416
≥55	88	39	49
Gender
Male	94	37	57	0.414
Female	45	21	24
Smoking
No smoking	55	19	36	0.165
Smoking	84	39	45
Histopathology type
Adenocarcinoma	71	33	38	0.246
Squamous cell carcinoma	68	25	43
Lymph node metastasis
No	73	39	34	0.003
Yes	66	19	47
TNM stage
Stage I	38	23	15	0.011
Stage II	55	22	33
Stage III-IV	46	13	33
Differentiation
Low grade	21	11	10	0.221
Middle grade	86	31	55
High grade	32	16	16