Table 1.

Association between miR-153 expression and clinical and pathological characteristics of patients with prostate cancer.

Variables	Cases (n)	MiR-153 expression		P-value
		High (n = 31)	Low (n = 30)
Age, years
<55	15	9	6	0.818
≥55	46	24	22
Lymph node metastasis
Yes	29	22	7	0.180
No	32	18	14
Bone metastases
Yes	27	18	9	0.203
No	34	16	18
Gleason score
<8	23	12	11	0.710
≥8	38	23	15
TNM stage
I + II	32	8	24	0.001
IV	29	23	6

TNM, tumor, node, metastasis.