Table 1. Correlation between BMI1 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of 240 bladder cancer specimens.

Characteristics		BMI1		P-value
		Higher expression	Lower expression
BMI expression	-	118	122	-
Gender	male	80	87	0.55
	female	38	35
Age (years)	≤ 65	55	59	0.76
	> 65	63	63
No. of tumors	single	90	92	0.87
	multiple	28	30
Stage	T2	5	12	< 0.001
	T3	45	67
	T4	68	33
Grade	low	41	80	< 0.001
	high	77	42
Lymph node	positive	61	43	0.005
	negative	40	70
	not available	17	19