Table 1.

Relationship between the Expression of miR-216b and Clinicopathological Features of Patients with Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Clinicopathological Features	n	The Expression of miR-216b		p
		High (n = 26)	Low (n = 14)
Age (year)				0.191
<50	17	13	4
≥50	23	13	10
Gender				0.104
Male	24	18	6
Female	16	8	8
Tumor size (cm)				0.787
<4	16	10	6
≥4	24	16	8
Differentiation				0.002
Poor/undifferentiation	21	9	12
Well/moderate differentiation	19	17	2
LNM				0.006
Yes	12	4	8
No	28	22	6
TNM staging				0.002
III + IV	13	4	9
I + II	27	22	5

The data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation and analyzed by chi-square test.