Increased expression of the long non-coding RNA ANRIL promotes lung cancer cell metastasis and correlates with poor prognosis

Table 1 Correlation between lncRNA ANRIL expression and clinicopathological features in NSCLC patients

Parameters	Group	Total	lncRNA ANRIL		*P value*
Parameters	Group	Total	Low	High	*P value*
Gender	Male	51	23	28	0.952
Gender	Female	36	16	20	0.952
Age (years)	<60	42	18	24	0.721
Age (years)	≥60	45	21	24	0.721
Tumor size (cm)	<3 cm	39	16	23	0.520
Tumor size (cm)	≥3 cm	48	23	25	0.520
Histology	Adenocarcinoma	38	20	18	0.197
Histology	Squamous cell carcinoma	49	19	30
TNM stage	I	26	19	7	0.001
	II-III	61	20	41	0.001
Lymph node metastasis	Absence	40	32	8	0.000
Lymph node metastasis	Presence	47	7	40	0.000

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