Table 1.

Comparison analysis of clinicopathological characteristics for miR-516a-3p in tissue

Characteristics	N	miR-516a-3p		χ2	P-value
		High	Low
Gender
Male	16	10	6	0.304	0.581
Female	24	17	7
Age
<60	22	14	8	0.333	0.564
≥60	18	13	5
Smoking status
Yes	13	8	5	0.312	0.576
No	27	19	8
pT
T1	24	16	8	0.019	0.890
T2-4	16	11	5
pN
N0	32	21	11	0.256	0.613
N1-3	8	6	2
TNM stage
I	28	22	6	3.543	0.022
II-III	12	5	7

N, number; p, pathological staging; pT, pathologic tumor staging; pN, pathologic lymph node staging; TNM, tumor-nodes-metastasis.