RETRACTED ARTICLE: Expression of microRNA-497 and its prognostic significance in human breast cancer

Diagnostic Pathology

Table 1 Correlations of miR-497 expression with clinicopathologic features of BC patients

	miR-497 expression
Clinicopathologic features	High (n = 74)	Low (n = 54)	P-value
Age (years)			0.204
≤50	44	38
>50	30	16
Tumor size (cm)			0.777
≤2.0	32	22
>2.0	42	32
Differentiation grade			0.005^*
G1 + 2	46	20
G3	28	34
Histological type			0.078
Ductal	50	44
Lobular	24	10
ER status			0.590
Negative	34	21
Positive	44	33
PR status			0.598
Negative	18	11
Positive	56	43
HER-2 status			0.024^*
Negative	49	25
Positive	25	29
Lymph node metastasis			0.001^*
Absent	47	18
Present	27	36
Clinical stage			0.010^*
I + II	43	19
III	31	35

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