Table I.

Association between miR-877 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

	miR-877 expression
Clinicopathological characteristics	Low, n	High, n	P-value
Sex			0.213
Male	12	16
Female	15	10
Age (years)			0.339
<60	16	12
≥60	11	14
Tumour size (cm)			0.336
<5	19	15
≥5	8	11
Smoking history (years)			0.165
<10	4	8
≥10	23	18
Tumor differentiation			0.695
I–II	10	11
III–IV	17	15
TNM stage			0.009a
I–II	8	17
III+IV	19	9
Distant metastasis			0.020a
Negative	10	18
Positive	17	8

^aP<0.05. miR-877, microRNA-877.