Table I.

Association between BANCR expression and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with HBV-associated HCC.

		BANCR expression level, n
Parameters	Total, n	Low	High	P-value
Gender				0.665
Male	40	19	21
Female	6	4	2
Age				0.475
<60 years	36	17	19
≥60 years	10	6	4
Tumor size				0.767
<5 cm	25	12	13
≥5 cm	21	11	10
AFP				0.008b
<20 ng/ml	21	15	6
≥20 ng/ml	25	8	17
Histological grade				0.349
Well	41	20	21
Moderately-poorly	5	3	2
TNM stage				0.491
I–II	35	19	16
III	11	4	7
Liver cirrhosis				0.326
Absence	33	15	18
Presence	13	8	5
Tumor number				0.047a
Solitary	38	22	16
Multiple	8	1	7

summarizes the association between BANCR expression level and clinicopathological features in patients with HBV HCC.

^aP<0.05

^bP<0.01. BANCR, BRAF-activated non-protein coding RNA; AFP, α-fetoprotein; HBV, hepatitis B virus; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.