Table 1 Association between SDHB expression (PTC tissues over normal adjacent thyroid tissues) and clinical characteristics in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)
From: MicroRNA-96-3p promotes metastasis of papillary thyroid cancer through targeting SDHB
Clinical characteristics | n | SDHB | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
Age (year) | |||
≤ 44 | 19 | 0.82 | 0.00089*** |
>44 | 9 | 1.52 | |
Sex | |||
Male | 10 | 1.11 | 0.074 |
Female | 18 | 1.32 | |
Multicentricity | |||
No | 18 | 1.25 | 0.062 |
Yes | 10 | 1.19 | |
Cervical LN metastasis | |||
No | 11 | 1.42 | 0.009** |
Yes | 17 | 0.78 | |
TNM | |||
I/II | 20 | 1.37 | 0.041* |
III/IV | 8 | 0.84 | |
Tumor size | |||
≤ 2 cm | 23 | 1.21 | 0.056 |
> 2 cm | 5 | 1.28 | |