Table 2.
Correlation between miR-140-3p expression and clinicopathological characteristics of gastric cancer patients
| Characteristic | Number | Low expression (N = 30) |
High expression (N = 30) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | 0.292 | |||
| Male | 36 | 16 | 20 | |
| Female | 24 | 14 | 10 | |
| Age | 0.602 | |||
| ≤ 65 | 26 | 14 | 12 | |
| > 65 | 34 | 16 | 18 | |
| Histologic differentiation | 0.301 | |||
| Well, moderate | 32 | 18 | 14 | |
| Poor | 28 | 12 | 16 | |
| Tumor size | 0.035 | |||
| ≤ 5 cm | 24 | 8 | 16 | |
| > 5 cm | 36 | 22 | 14 | |
| Lymph node metastasis | 0.003 | |||
| Negative | 21 | 5 | 16 | |
| Positive | 39 | 25 | 14 | |
| TNM stage | 0.009 | |||
| I, II | 26 | 8 | 18 | |
| III, IV | 34 | 22 | 12 | |
| Tumor site | 0.432 | |||
| Antrum | 35 | 19 | 16 | |
| Cardia | 25 | 11 | 14 | |