Table 1.

Relationship between miR-153 and clinicopathology features in NSCLC

Characteristics	Case number	miR-153 expression		P value
		Low (n = 48)	High (n = 71)
Age
< 60	48	25	23	0.765
≥ 60	71	35	36
Gender
Male	51	24	27	1.0
Female	68	32	36
Smoking history
Yes	80	38	42	0.901
No	39	19	20
TNM stage
I + II	82	32	50	0.004
III + IV	37	25	12
Lymph node status
Yes	28	22	6	< 0.001
No	91	31	60
Distant metastasis
Yes	10	8	2	0.082
No	109	56	53
Histological type
Adenocarcinoma	60	31	29	0.784
Squamous carcinoma	59	29	30
Differentiated degree
Low/middle	79	32	45	0.001
High	40	29	11