Table 1.

A correlation analysis between the miR-873-5p expression level and the clinicopathological characteristics

Variables	No. cases(68)	miR-873-5p expression		p value
		Low (%)	High (%)
Age
<55 years(%)	21	9	12	0.4310
≥55 years(%)	47	25	22
Gender
Male	56	25	31	0.0563
Female	12	9	3
Tumor size
<5 cm	31	12	19	0.0215
≥5 cm	37	22	15
TNM stage
I-II	30	10	20	0.0146
III-IV	38	24	14
LNM
No	28	10	18	0.0487
Yes	40	24	16
Histological type
Squamous	42	19	23	0.3182
Adenocarcinoma	26	15	11

aχ ² test. P-values in bold print indicate statistically significant differences. TNM, Tumor Node Metastasis