Table 1.

Clinical association between MIAT expression and clinicopathological variables in lung cancer patients.

Variable	MIAT		χ2 test p value
	Low expression (n = 83)	High expression (n = 129)
Age
<60	39	54	0.481
≥60	44	75
Gender
Male	50	84	0.560
Female	33	45
Tumor size
<5cm	57	63	0.005
≥5cm	26	66
Histology type
Adenocarcinoma	36	44	0.193
Squamous	47	85
Lymph node metastasis
N0-1	51	54	0.007
N2-3	32	75
Distant metastasis
No	66	79	0.006
Yes	17	50
TNM stage
I-II	63	72	0.003
III-IV	20	57