Table 2 Association of miR-224 expression with clinicopathological features from ESCC patients
From: Expression and role of oncogenic miRNA-224 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Characteristics | miR-224 expression | P valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|
High | Low | ||
Age (years) | |||
≥60 | 22 | 15 | 0.658 |
<60 | 14 | 12 | |
Gender | |||
Male | 28 | 17 | 0.198 |
Female | 8 | 10 | |
Tumor localizationb | |||
Upper third | 3 | 5 | 0.442 |
Middle third | 17 | 10 | |
Lower third | 16 | 12 | |
Tumor length (cm) | |||
<3 | 15 | 12 | 0.881 |
3–5 | 17 | 13 | |
>5 | 4 | 2 | |
Pathologic grade | |||
GI | 5 | 8 | 0.035 |
GII | 10 | 12 | |
GIII | 21 | 7 | |
TNM | |||
I | 5 | 6 | 0.029 |
II | 16 | 18 | |
III | 15 | 3 | |