Table I.
Correlation between miR-210 expression and the clinicopathological characteristics of the osteosarcoma patients.
| miR-210a expression | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinicopathological features | Cases (n=54) | High (n=39) | Low (n=15) | P-value |
| Age (years) | 0.5768 | |||
| >60 | 26 | 20 | 6 | |
| ≤60 | 28 | 19 | 9 | |
| Sex | 0.4937 | |||
| Male | 28 | 18 | 8 | |
| Female | 26 | 21 | 7 | |
| Tumor size (cm) | 0.3864 | |||
| ≥5.0 | 30 | 25 | 8 | |
| <5.0 | 24 | 14 | 7 | |
| TNM stage | 0.0066b | |||
| I–II | 22 | 11 | 11 | |
| III | 32 | 28 | 4 | |
| Lymph node metastasis | 0.0042b | |||
| Yes | 33 | 31 | 4 | |
| No | 21 | 8 | 11 | |
| Distant metastasis | 0.5204 | |||
| Yes | 28 | 18 | 9 | |
| No | 26 | 21 | 6 | |
a
The mean expression level of miR-210 was used as the cutoff.
b
Statistically significant. TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.