Table I.
Associations between LINC00473 expression and the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with esophageal squamous cell cancer.
| Clinicopathological indicators | No. of patients | Relative expression level of LINC00473
|
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | |||
| All cases | 46 | 24 | 22 | |
| Age, years | ||||
| ≥60 | 35 | 19 | 16 | 0.609 |
| <60 | 11 | 5 | 6 | |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 34 | 16 | 18 | 0.242 |
| Female | 12 | 8 | 4 | |
| Smoking | ||||
| Smoker | 29 | 14 | 15 | 0.489 |
| Never smoked | 17 | 10 | 7 | |
| Tumor size (d/cm) | ||||
| >3 cm | 25 | 15 | 10 | 0.246 |
| ≥3 cm | 21 | 9 | 12 | |
| T classification | ||||
| T1 + T2 | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0.041 |
| T3 + T4 | 26 | 17 | 9 | |
| Lymph node metastasis | ||||
| N0-N1 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 0.018 |
| N2-N3 | 29 | 19 | 10 | |
| Tumor differentiation | ||||
| Poor/medium | 24 | 16 | 8 | 0.039 |
| High | 22 | 8 | 14 | |