Table II.
Correlations between SNHG7 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with PC.
| SNHG7 expression | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Total (n=50) | Low (n=25) | High (n=25) | P-valuea |
| Sex | 0.556 | |||
| Male | 32 | 15 | 17 | |
| Female | 18 | 10 | 8 | |
| Age | 0.564 | |||
| ≤60 | 20 | 9 | 11 | |
| >60 | 30 | 16 | 14 | |
| Tumor size, cm | 0.005b | |||
| ≤2 | 26 | 18 | 8 | |
| >2 | 24 | 7 | 17 | |
| Distant metastasis | 0.011b | |||
| Absent | 25 | 17 | 8 | |
| Present | 25 | 8 | 17 | |
| Lymph node metastasis | 0.004b | |||
| Negative | 30 | 20 | 10 | |
| Positive | 20 | 5 | 15 | |
| TNM stage | 0.004b | |||
| I-II | 28 | 19 | 9 | |
| III-IV | 22 | 6 | 16 | |
aχ2 test;
bP<0.05, indicative of a statistically significant difference. PC, pancreatic cancer; SNHG7, small nucleolar RNA host gene 7.