Table 1.

Patient characteristics and clinicopathologic correlation of miR-203a and VEGFR expression.

Characteristics	Number of cases	miR-203a expression		P-value	VEGFR expression		P-value
		High	Low		High	Low
Age (years)				0.821			0.324
≥60	24	7	17		21	3
<60	34	9	25		25	9
Gender				0.089			0.716
Male	45	10	35		35	10
Female	13	6	7		11	2
Histology				0.060			0.078
Well	20	9	11		15	5
Moderate	6	2	4		3	3
poor	32	5	27		28	4
pTNM Stage				0.046			0.007
I	15	2	13		13	2
II	14	3	11		7	7
III	22	6	16		21	1
IV	7	5	2		5	2