Table 1. Correlations between circMET with clinicopathologic features in 94 NSCLCs.

Variable	No. of patients		P value*
	circMETlow	circMEThigh
Age, year
≥60	32	27	0.246
<60	20	15
Gender
Male	29	22	0.367
Female	23	20
Smoking
Yes	38	25	0.523
No	14	17
Histologic type
Squamous cell carcinoma	26	24	0.218
Adenocarcinomas	19	16
Others	7	2
Tumor diameter(cm)
≤3	29	11	0.006
>3	23	31
TNM stage
I-II	34	14	0.249
III-IV	18	28
Differentiation
Well/moderate	34	12	0.015
Poor	18	30
Lymphatic metastasis
Yes	13	31	0.008
No	39	11
Distant metastasis
Yes	23	32	0.132
No	29	10

A chi-square test was used for comparing groups between low and high circMET expression. *, p<0.05 was considered significant.