Clinicopathologic factors | MALAT1 expression levels | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Patient number | MALAT1 lower | MALAT1 higher | P value | |
Gender | 0.263 | |||
 Male | 42 | 24 | 18 |  |
 Female | 36 | 16 | 20 |  |
Age (years) | 0.621 | |||
 ≤50 | 45 | 22 | 23 |  |
 >50 | 33 | 18 | 15 |  |
Histological grade | 0.879 | |||
 High | 19 | 9 | 10 |  |
 Middle | 24 | 12 | 12 |  |
 Low | 35 | 19 | 16 |  |
Local invasion | 0.003** | |||
 T1, T2 | 34 | 24 | 10 |  |
 T3, T4 | 44 | 16 | 28 |  |
Lymph node metastasis | 0.043** | |||
 No | 43 | 27 | 18 |  |
 Yes | 35 | 13 | 22 |  |
Distant metastasis | 0.086 | |||
 No | 50 | 22 | 28 |  |
 Yes | 28 | 18 | 10 |  |
TNM stage | 0.039** | |||
 I/II | 36 | 23 | 13 |  |
 III/IV | 42 | 17 | 25 |  |