Table 2.

Associations between lncRNA LINC01287 expression and patients’ clinicopathological features

Variable	No. of patients	LINC01287 low expression	LINC01287 high expression	P value
Age
< 60	45	20	25	0.311
≧60	53	29	24
Gender
Male	65	30	35	0.285
Female	33	19	14
Tumor size
< 5 cm	60	38	22	0.001
≧5 cm	38	11	27
Lymph node involvement
Absent (pN0)	53	32	21	0.026
Present (pN+)	45	17	28
TNM stage
I-II	47	29	18	0.026
III-IV	51	20	31
HBV infection
Yes	54	30	24	0.223
NO	44	19	25