Table I.

Association between CCEPR expression and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with colorectal cancer.

Variables	Cases (n=58)	Low CCEPR levels (n=33)	High CCEPR levels (n=25)	P-value
Age (years)				0.384
≤55	31	16	15
>55	27	17	10
Sex				0.832
Male	38	22	16
Female	20	11	9
Differentiation				0.032a
Well and moderately	41	27	14
Poor	17	6	11
Node metastasis				0.043a
Present	26	11	15
Absent	32	22	10
Distant metastasis				0.003a
Present	9	1	8
Absent	49	32	17
Clinical stage				0.043a
I–II	32	22	10
III–IV	26	11	15

^aP<0.05. CCEPR, cervical carcinoma expressed PCNA regulatory lncRNA; lncRNA, long non-coding RNA.