Table 1.
Correlation analysis between tissue miR-485-3p levels and clinicopathological features of 46 PC patients (n).
| miR-485-3p expression | ||||
| Variables | Number of cases (n = 46) | Low (n = 36) | High (n = 10) | P value |
| Age | 0.240 | |||
| < 60 years | 13 | 12 | 1 | |
| ≥60 years | 33 | 24 | 9 | |
| Gender | 0.480 | |||
| Male | 28 | 23 | 5 | |
| Female | 18 | 13 | 5 | |
| Location | 1.000 | |||
| Head | 31 | 24 | 7 | |
| Other | 15 | 12 | 3 | |
| Tumor size | 0.719 | |||
| <4cm | 27 | 22 | 5 | |
| ≥4cm | 19 | 14 | 5 | |
| Histologic grade | 1.000 | |||
| Well/moderate | 32 | 25 | 7 | |
| Poor | 14 | 11 | 3 | |
| Regional lymph nodes | 0.667 | |||
| N0 | 22 | 16 | 6 | |
| N1 | 19 | 16 | 3 | |
| N2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Perineural invasion | 0.056 | |||
| Negative | 14 | 8 | 6 | |
| Positive | 32 | 28 | 4 | |
| Lymphovascular invasion | 0.044 | |||
| Negative | 34 | 24 | 10 | |
| Positive | 12 | 12 | 0 | |
Based on the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (8th Edition). PC: Pancreatic cancer.