Table I.
Association between miR-208b-5p expression level and the clinicopathological characteristic of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
| miR-208b-5p expression | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Patient, n | High n=30 | Low n=32 | P-value |
| Sex | 0.075 | |||
| Male | 51 | 22 | 29 | |
| Female | 11 | 8 | 3 | |
| Age, years | 0.553 | |||
| <60 | 39 | 20 | 19 | |
| ≥60 | 23 | 10 | 13 | |
| Smoking status | 0.851 | |||
| Previous/Current | 40 | 19 | 21 | |
| Never | 22 | 11 | 11 | |
| Pathological type | 0.779 | |||
| Adenocarcinoma | 28 | 13 | 15 | |
| Squamous carcinoma | 34 | 17 | 17 | |
| Tumor differentiation | 0.286 | |||
| Well and moderate | 49 | 22 | 27 | |
| Poor | 13 | 8 | 5 | |
| Tumor size, cm | 0.830 | |||
| <3 | 51 | 25 | 26 | |
| ≥3 | 11 | 5 | 6 | |
| Lymphatic metastasis | 0.014 | |||
| Yes | 22 | 6 | 16 | |
| No | 40 | 24 | 16 | |
| TNM classification | 0.021 | |||
| I–II | 22 | 15 | 7 | |
| III–IV | 40 | 15 | 25 | |
miR, microRNA; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.