Table II.

Correlation of CENPF expression in NSCLC tissues with different clinicopathological features (n=75).

	CENPF
Characteristic	Low (n=31)	High (n=44)	P-value
Age (years)			0.6410
<60	14	23
≥60	17	21
Sex			0.8163
Male	18	24
Female	13	20
Smoking status			0.6210
Smoker	9	16
Non-smoker	22	28
Tumor size			0.0179a
<5 cm	18	13
≥5 cm	13	31
TNM stage			0.0991
I/II	16	14
III	15	30
Lymph node metastasis			0.3474
Absent	20	23
Present	11	21
Pathological Type			0.4705
Adenocarcinoma	21	25
Squamous cell carcinoma	10	19
Vital status (at follow-up)			0.0008c
Alive	17	7
Dead	14	37
FOXM1 expression			0.0013b
Low	18	9
High	13	35

Clinicopathological features were assessed using the Fisher's exact test.

^aP<0.05

^bP<0.01

^cP<0.0001. NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; CENPF, centromere protein F; FOXM1, Forkhead box M1.