Table 1.
Correlation of miR-125b expression with patient clinicopathologic variables in CRC tissues.
| Variables | MiR-125b Expression | p -Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All (n = 58) | Low (n = 32) | High (n = 26) | ||
| Age (years) | >0.9999 | |||
| ≤65 | 28 | 15 | 13 | |
| >65 | 30 | 17 | 13 | |
| Sex | 0.7976 | |||
| male | 30 | 16 | 14 | |
| female | 28 | 16 | 12 | |
| Tumor location | 0.3629 | |||
| ascending colon | 19 | 10 | 9 | |
| transverse colon | 9 | 5 | 4 | |
| descending colon | 7 | 6 | 1 | |
| sigmoid colon | 23 | 11 | 12 | |
| Tumor size (cm) | 0.2724 | |||
| <5 | 21 | 14 | 7 | |
| ≥5 | 37 | 18 | 19 | |
| Tumor invasion | 0.0457 | |||
| T1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| T2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| T3 | 44 | 26 | 18 | |
| T4 | 11 | 3 | 8 | |
| Lymph node metastasis | 0.021 | |||
| N0 | 33 | 23 | 10 | |
| N1 | 19 | 8 | 11 | |
| N2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | |
| N3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| AJCC stage | 0.0207 | |||
| stage 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| stage 2 | 30 | 20 | 10 | |
| stage 3 | 25 | 9 | 16 | |
| Tumor Differentiation | 0.0453 | |||
| well | 11 | 8 | 3 | |
| moderate | 40 | 23 | 17 | |
| poor | 7 | 1 | 6 | |