MicroRNA-937 is overexpressed and predicts poor prognosis in patients with colon cancer

Diagnostic Pathology

Table 1 Association of clinical characteristics of colon cancer patients and miR-937 expression

Characteristics	Cases No. (n = 109)	miR-937 expression		P
Characteristics	Cases No. (n = 109)	Low (n = 52)	High (n = 57)	P
Age				0.510
≤ 60	56	25	31
> 60	53	27	26
Gender				0.726
Female	38	19	19
Male	71	33	38
Differentiation				0.348
Well - Moderate	62	32	30
Poor	47	20	27
Lymph node metastasis				0.026
Negative	57	33	24
Positive	52	19	33
Vascular invasion
Negative	60	33	27	0.092
Positive	49	19	30
Histological type
Adenocarcinoma	86	42	44	0.648
Mucinous/signet-ring cancer	23	10	13
TNM stage				0.016
I - II	56	33	23
III - IV	53	19	34

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