Table 1.

Association of HOTTIP with clinical parameters

Patients characteristics	HOTTIP expression
	−	+	χ 2	P-value*
All cases (N=115)	27	88
Age			0.5957	0.4402
≦56	10	40
>56	17	48
Gender			0.4183	0.5178
Male	15	55
Female	12	33
Disease stage			9.6084	0.0019
Limited disease (LD)	20	33
Extensive-stage disease (ED)	7	50
Chemotherapy response			9.6976	0.0018
Chemosensitive	18	35
Chemoinsensitive	9	69
Median survival (5–36 months)			23.5898	<0.001
Survival	19	18
Death	8	70