Table 1.

The correlation between clinicopathological features and miR-135a-5p expression in BC patients.

Pathological parameters	Numbers (n = 49)	MiR-135a-5p expression		p-value
		High (n = 25)	Low (n = 24)
Age (years)				0.296
< 35	20	12	8
≥ 35	29	13	16
Lymphatic metastasis				0.013a
Negative	21	15	6
Positive	28	10	18
ER status				0.889
Negative	25	13	12
Positive	24	12	12
PR stage				0.054
Negative	16	5	11
Positive	33	20	13
TNM stage				0.004a
Ⅰ + Ⅱ	18	14	4
Ⅲ + Ⅳ	31	11	20
Tumor size (cm)				0.469
≥ 2	26	12	14
< 2	23	13	10

ER, Estrogen Receptor; PR, Progesterone Receptor; TNM, Tumor, Node, Metastasis staging classification.

^aMeans that the statistical difference less than  0.05.