Table 1.
A correlation analysis between the TP73-AS1 expression level and the clinicopathological characteristics
| Vairables | No. cases(70) | TP73-AS1 expression |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low (%) | High(%) | |||
| Age | ||||
| <50 years(%) | 30 | 15 | 15 | 0.678 |
| ≥50 years(%) | 40 | 18 | 22 | |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 31 | 14 | 17 | 0.767 |
| Female | 39 | 19 | 20 | |
| Tumor size | ||||
| ≥5 cm | 33 | 11 | 22 | 0.029 |
| <5 cm | 37 | 22 | 15 | |
| TNM stage | ||||
| I-II | 28 | 18 | 10 | 0.019 |
| III-IV | 42 | 15 | 27 | |
| LNM | ||||
| No | 30 | 20 | 10 | 0.005 |
| Yes | 40 | 13 | 27 | |
| Histological type | ||||
| Squamous | 41 | 19 | 22 | 0.873 |
| Adenocarcinoma | 29 | 14 | 15 | |
aχ 2 test. P-values in bold print indicate statistically significant differences. TNM, Tumor Node Metastasis