Table 1 Correlations between Dicer expression and clinicopathological features of patients with cervical carcinoma
From: Prognostic significance of low DICER expression regulated by miR-130a in cervical cancer
Characteristics | IHC data set ( n =102) | qRT-PCR data set ( n =90) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DICER | DICER | |||||
High | Low | P* | High | Low | P* | |
Age (years) | ||||||
 >35 | 36 | 45 | 0.088 | 43 | 26 | 0.8 |
 ⩽35 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 7 | ||
Tumor size | ||||||
 ⩾4 cm | 23 | 28 | 0.553 | 26 | 17 | 0.664 |
 <4 cm | 27 | 24 | 31 | 16 | ||
SCC | ||||||
 ⩾1.5 ng/ml | 10 | 18 | 0.125 | 14 | 9 | 0.806 |
 <1.5 ng/ml | 40 | 34 | 43 | 24 | ||
Histology | ||||||
 Adenocarcinoma | 2 | 4 | 0.678 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
 Squamous | 48 | 48 | 54 | 31 | ||
Tumor grade | ||||||
 G1 | 17 | 17 | 1.000 | 20 | 11 | 1 |
 G2/G3 | 33 | 35 | 37 | 22 | ||
FIGO stage | ||||||
 I–II | 48 | 41 | 0.015 | 57 | 31 | |
 III–IV | 2 | 11 | 0 | 2 | ||
Lymph node metastasis | ||||||
 Yes | 14 | 8 | 0.335 | 13 | 9 | 0.8 |
 No | 36 | 35 | 44 | 24 | ||
 Missing data | 0 | 9 | ||||
Distant metastasis and recurrence | ||||||
 Yes | 7 | 19 | 0.012 | 7 | 14 | 0.002 |
 No | 43 | 33 | 50 | 19 | ||
