Table 1.

Correlation between clinicopathological characteristics of NSCLC patients and circ_0017109 expression level

Clinicopathological features		No.	Low circ_0017109 expression (n = 25)	High circ_0017109 expression (n = 25)	P-value
Age	≥65	26	12	14	0.5713
	<65	24	13	11
Gender	Male	22	10	12	0.5688
	Female	28	15	13
Tumor size	≥3 cm	23	8	15	0.047
	<3 cm	27	17	10
Differentiation	Well-Moderate	32	19	13	0.0771
	Poor	18	6	12
Lymph node metastasis	Positive	15	4	11	0.0308
	Negative	35	21	14
TNM stage	I + II	28	18	10	0.0227
	III + IV	22	7	15