Table 1.

Clinicopathological characteristics of CRC patients associated with SNORD1C levels.

Characteristic	Number	Low SNORD1C expression	High SNORD1C expression	P-value
Sex				0.100
male	85	39	46
female	23	15	8
Age (years)				0.687
<60	38	18	20
≥60	70	36	34
Location				0.845
rectum	45	22	23
colon	63	32	31
Differentiation				0.260
well	1	1	0
moderate	97	50	47
poor	10	3	7
Size (cm)				0.537
<3	35	19	16
≥3	73	35	38
TNM				0.016*
I	11	10	1
II	36	17	19
III and IV	61	27	34
Venous invasion				0.197
positive	30	18	12
negative	78	36	42
Nerve infiltration				0.156
positive	37	22	15
negative	71	32	39
Lymphatic metastasis				0.174
yes	61	27	34
no	47	27	20
CEA-blood (ng/mL)				0.033*
≤5.0	47	29	18
>5.0	61	25	36

Bold entries indicate statistically significant p-values.

^*p < 0.05.