Clinicopathological factors | Expression level of 6 miRNAsa | χ2 value | P value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
High (n = 20) | Low (n = 19) | ||||
Histological type | Adenocarcinoma | 12 | 10 | 0.216 | 0.642 |
Squamous carcinoma | 8 | 9 | |||
Gender | Male | 14 | 15 | 0.407 | 0.523 |
Female | 6 | 4 | |||
Age (years) | <60 | 9 | 7 | 0.265 | 0.607 |
≥60 | 11 | 12 | |||
Smoking | Nonsmoker | 8 | 8 | 0.019 | 0.891 |
Smoker | 12 | 11 | |||
TNM Clinical stage | IIIB | 5 | 8 | 1.288 | 0.256 |
IV | 15 | 11 | |||
Chemotherapy regimensb | DDP + TXT | 9 | 6 | 0.745 | 0.689 |
DDP + GEM | 6 | 7 | |||
DDP + NVB | 5 | 6 | |||
Chemotherapy responsec | CR + PR | 7 | 13 | 4.366 | 0.036* |
SD + PD | 13 | 6 |