Table 1.
Correlation between MKLN1-AS score in HCC and clinicopathological factors
| Clinicopathological factors |
MKLN1-AS |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High-expression | Low-expression | ||
| Age (years) | |||
| <60 | 18 | 7 | 0.2962 |
| ≥60 | 20 | 14 | |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 33 | 15 | 0.1747 |
| Female | 5 | 6 | |
| Tumor size (cm) | |||
| ≤5 | 22 | 11 | 0.7864 |
| >5 | 16 | 10 | |
| Differentiation level | |||
| Low | 2 | 2 | |
| Medium | 32 | 18 | 0.6389 |
| High | 4 | 1 | |
| Satellite foci | |||
| With | 6 | 4 | 0.7128 |
| Without | 31 | 14 | |
| AFP (µg /L) | |||
| <200 | 21 | 11 | 0.7889 |
| ≥200 | 16 | 10 | |
| Vascular invasion | |||
| With | 19 | 3 | 0.0043** |
| Without | 16 | 18 | |
| HBV DNA (cps/mL) | |||
| ≥500 | 19 | 9 | 0.7828 |
| <500 | 18 | 11 | |
| Liver cirrhosis | |||
| Without | 10 | 5 | >0.9999 |
| With | 28 | 16 | |
N, Adjacent noncancerous liver tissue; C, Cancer tissue; AFP, Alpha-fetoprotein; HBV, Hepatitis B virus. (*p < 0.05)