Table 1.

Correlations of TUFT1 with clinical pathological features of HCC patients.

Variable	TUFT1 (n = 257)
	High	Low	P value
Age
≤50 years	31	92	0.059
>50 years	49	85
Gender
Female	10	24	0.064
Male	70	153
Liver cirrhosis
Yes	61	143	0.039
No	19	34
Tumor differentiation
I	5	8	0.037
II	35	72
III	40	96
Vascular invasion
Yes	50	53	0.0027
No	30	124
Tumor size
≤ 5 cm	57	50	0.0017
> 5 cm	35	115
TNM stage
I	49	110	0.0559
II	13	18
III	18	49