Table 1.

Association of TC2N expression with lung cancer clinicopathological characteristics

Variable	Category	Relative TC2N expression			P
		High (n = 143)	Medium (n = 100)	Low (n = 29)
Age (years)	<60	45	40	12	0.310
	≥60	97	59	17
Histological type	ADC	90	73	19	0.257
	SCC	53	27	10
Clinical stage	I	35	30	14	0.006
(AJCC)	II	31	39	5
	III	53	22	7
	IV	1	1	1
Gender	Male	98	63	22	0.386
	Female	45	37	7
Histological grade	1	2	13	7	<0.001
	2	88	78	21
	3	53	9	1
Tumor size	≤3cm	43	34	8	0.776
	>3 cm	89	62	20
Lymph node status	Negative	58	44	19	0.067
	Positive	68	48	8

Bold values indicate statistical significance, P < 0.05

ADC adenocarcinoma, SCC squamous cell carcinoma