Table I.

Association between the expression of TCONS_00001798 and clinicopathological characteristics in 118 patients with NSCLC.

		Number of patients
Patient characteristics	Number of patients	Low expression	High expression	P-value
Age (years)				0.261
≤60	70	32	38
>60	48	27	21
Sex				0.249
Male	76	41	35
Female	42	18	24
Smoking				0.431
Yes	80	42	38
No	38	17	21
Histological subtype				0.514
AD	41	21	20
SCC	52	28	24
Others	25	10	15
Pathological stage				0.003a
I and II	72	28	44
III and IV	46	31	15
Lymph node metastasis (N)				<0.001a
N1 or above	49	34	15
N0	69	25	44
Tumor size (cm)				0.712
≤3	54	26	28
>3	64	33	31

All data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation.

^aP<0.05. NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; AD, adenocarcinoma; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma.