Table I.

Association between miR-1301-3p expression and the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (n=124).

Characteristic	Patient, n	Low miR-1301-3p expression (n=51)	High miR-1301-3p expression (n=73)	P-value
Age, years				0.704
<60	59	30	29
≥60	65	21	44
Sex				0.453
Male	70	31	39
Female	54	20	34
TNM stage				0.025a
I–II	86	39	47
III–IV	38	12	26
Lymph node metastasis				0.027a
Negative	84	34	50
Positive	40	17	23
Differentiation				0.136
Well-moderate	79	39	40
Poor	45	12	33
Smoking				0.270
No	61	23	38
Yes	63	28	35
Tumor size, cm				0.262
<4	67	35	32
≥4	57	16	41

^aP<0.05. miR, microRNA; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.