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Table 3.

Association of miR-128 with the clinicopathological features of patients

Variables	No. cases (48)	miR-128 expression		p-value
Variables		Low (n)	High (n)	p-value
Age
<50 years	20	10	10	0.461
≥ 50 years	28	11	17	0.461
Tumor size
≥5 cm	27	16	11	0.014^a
<5 cm	21	5	16	0.014^a
TNM stage
I-II	19	3	16	0.002^a
III-IV	29	18	11	0.002^a
Distant metastasis
No	17	4	13	0.037^a
Yes	31	17	14	0.037^a
Lymph node metastasis
Absent	16	8	8	0.537
Present	32	13	19	0.537
Histological grade
Well	22	8	14	0.343
Moderately/Poorly	26	13	13	0.343

aχ² test. P-values in bold print indicate statistically significant differences.