Table 1.

The association between METTL3 expression and clinical pathological characters in PCa

Clinical pathological characters	Number of cases	METTL3		P-value
		Low-expression	High-expression
Age (years)
≤70	49	22	27	0.853
>70	35	15	20
Gleason score
≤7	54	28	26	0.053
≥8	30	9	21
Tumor stage
≤ T2	32	19	13	0.026
≥T3	52	18	34
Lymph node or/and distant metastasis
Negative	74	36	38	0.049
Positive	10	1	9
MYC expression
Low	48	32	16	<0.001
High	36	5	31