Table 1.
Correlation between clinicopathological features and RBM15B expression in HCC tumor tissues.
| Characteristics | Number | RBM15B expression | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | |||
| Gender | 0.6416 | |||
| Male | 43 | 22 | 21 | |
| Female | 37 | 17 | 20 | |
| Age | 0.8161 | |||
| <65 | 51 | 25 | 26 | |
| ≥65 | 29 | 15 | 14 | |
| HBV infection | 0.6020 | |||
| No | 21 | 10 | 11 | |
| Yes | 59 | 32 | 27 | |
| AFP | 0.4586 | |||
| ≤400 (μg/L) | 23 | 10 | 13 | |
| >400 (μg/L) | 57 | 30 | 27 | |
| Tumour size | 0.0111* | |||
| ≤5cm | 42 | 18 | 24 | |
| >5cm | 38 | 27 | 11 | |
| TNM staging | 0.0436* | |||
| I-II | 43 | 17 | 26 | |
| III-IV | 37 | 23 | 14 | |
| Lymph node metastasis | 0.3291 | |||
| Absent | 56 | 26 | 30 | |
| Present | 24 | 14 | 10 | |
| BCLC stage | 0.1227 | |||
| Low | 53 | 24 | 29 | |
| High | 27 | 16 | 9 | |
| PVTT | 0.0070* | |||
| NO | 36 | 12 | 24 | |
| YES | 44 | 28 | 16 | |
*The expression of RBM15B were compared between the tumor tissue and the normal tissue. BCLC, Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer; PVTT, portal vein tumor thrombus. Italics indicate statistically significant values. *P < 0.05.