Table 1. Relationship between clinicopathological features and lncRNA-CCHE1 expression in PTC.

Factors	Number	LncRNA-CCHE1 expression		P value
		High	Low
Total	51	26	25
Gender				0.948
Male	9	4	5
Female	42	22	20
Age (years)				0.378
<55	38	18	20
≥55	13	8	5
Tumor size (cm)				0.488
<1	24	11	13
≥1	27	15	12
Tumor number				0.025*
Solitary	33	13	20
Multiple	18	13	5
Extrathyroidal extension				0.017*
Negative	24	8	16
Positive	27	18	9
Lymph nodes metastasis				0.492
Negative	22	10	12
Positive	29	16	13
TNM stage				0.043*
I	41	18	23
II–III	10	8	2
BrafV600E				0.061
(−)	9	2	7
(+)	42	24	18

*, statistically significant (P<0.05). PTC, papillary thyroid carcinoma; lncRNA-CCHE1, cervical carcinoma high-expressed long non-coding RNA 1; TNM, tumor, node, metastasis.