Figure 1

High levels of STMN1 are correlated with progression and prognostic significance in NSCLC. (a) STMN1 expression in cancer tissues and adjacent normal tissues and from NSCLC patients. STMN1 expression was significantly higher in tumor tissue compared with adjacent normal tissue (P<0.001). (b) High STMN1 expression levels were observed in NSCLC tissues in 34 (91.9%) cases. (c) A representative western blotting shows the relative STMN1 protein expression level in tumorous tissue samples of two NSCLC patients (d) The Kaplan–Meier disease-specific survival curves by STMN1 levels. Patients with elevated STMN1 expression showed reduced survival times compared with patients with low levels of STMN1 expression (log-rank test; P<0.001).