Table 1.

The correlations between SNHG6 expression and clinicopathological characteristics in ESCC patients

Variables	Cases	SNHG6 expression		P value
		Low	High
Gender				0.300
Male	51	24	27
Female	24	9	15
Age (years)				0.115
< 60	23	13	10
≥ 60	52	20	32
Smoking				0.359
Yes	38	18	20
No	37	15	22
Drinking				0.137
Yes	45	17	28
No	30	16	14
Tumor size				0.081
≥ 4 cm	42	15	27
< 4 cm	33	18	15
Lymph node metastasis				0.003
Yes	44	13	31
No	31	20	11
Distant metastasis				0.021
Yes	13	2	11
No	62	31	31
TNM stage				0.003
I/II	23	16	7
III/IV	52	17	35