Table I.

Association between the expression of miR-296-5p and the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with colorectal carcinoma.

Clinical characteristics	Cases, n	Low, n	High, n	P-value
Age, years				0.345
≤60	14	10	4
>60	26	18	8
Sex				0.176
Male	19	15	4
Female	21	13	8
Tumor size, cm				0.004
≥5	24	19	5
<5	16	9	7
TNM stage				<0.001
I + II	15	7	8
III + IV	25	21	4
Metastasis				<0.001
Yes	27	22	5
No	13	6	7

TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.