Table 1.

Correlation between MAP1LC3B protein expression level and patients clinicopathological characteristics.

	N	Mean ± SD	P-value
Type of tissue
Non-cancerous	14	2.78 ± 0.92	<0.001
Cancer	80	5.86 ± 2.25
Gleason score
<8	29	5.36 ± 1.75	0.031
≥8	46	6.48 ± 2.34
Pathological stage
≤T2c	51	5.98 ± 2.13	0.556
T3a–T4	29	5.65 ± 2.43
Metastasis
Yes	8	5.01 ± 1.73	0.260
No	72	5.95 ± 2.29