Table 1.
Relationship between circFNDC3B expression and clinicopathologic features of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients
| Clinical characteristics | Total (n = 50) | circFNDC3B expression |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | |||
| Age | 0.778 | |||
| ≤ 60 years | 26 | 14 | 12 | |
| >60 years | 24 | 11 | 13 | |
| Gender | 0.776 | |||
| Male | 28 | 13 | 15 | |
| Female | 22 | 12 | 10 | |
| Tumor size | 0.387 | |||
| <5 cm | 30 | 17 | 13 | |
| ≥5 cm | 20 | 8 | 12 | |
| TNM stage | 0.047* | |||
| I–II | 24 | 8 | 16 | |
| III | 26 | 17 | 9 | |
| Histologic differentiation | 0.926 | |||
| Well | 23 | 11 | 12 | |
| Moderate | 18 | 9 | 9 | |
| Poor | 9 | 5 | 4 | |
| Lymph node invasion | 0.047* | |||
| Present | 27 | 17 | 10 | |
| Absent | 23 | 8 | 15 | |