Table 1.

Correlation between FBXL19-AS1 expression and clinical features (n=84)

Variable	FBXL19-AS1 expression		P-value
	Low	High
Age
<60	21	27	0.826
≥60	17	19
Gender
Male	22	28	0.826
Female	16	18
Tumor Size
<3cm	25	17	0.015*
≥3cm	13	29
Histology
Adenoma	21	28	0.660
Squamous	17	18
Differentiation
Well	23	13	0.004*
Moderate-poor	15	33
TNM stage
I-II	22	14	0.015*
III-IV	16	32
Lymph node metastasis
No	26	14	0.001*
Yes	12	32

Low/high by the sample median. Pearson χ² test. *P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.