Table 2.

MiR-22-3p is correlated with distant metastasis and tumor size of OS

Clinical pathologic parameters	Group	Cases (n = 45)	MiR-22-3p expression		P
			High expression group (n = 21)	Low expression group (n = 22)
Age (years)	< 20	27	11	16	0.1677
	20 or more	16	10	6
Gender	Male	32	13	19	0.0661
	Female	11	8	3
Tumor size	< 8	20	15	5	0.0014
	8 or more	23	6	17
Distant metastasis	Yes	29	11	18	0.0395
	No	14	10	4
Entering stage	I + II	17	9	8	0.6633
	III	26	12	14
Differentiation state	High	18	11	7	0.1719
	Low	25	10	15