Plasma HULC as a Promising Novel Biomarker for the Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Table 1

Relationship of HULC expression to clinicopathological features of HCC patients.

(a)

Normal			Tumor (Edmondson grade)
𝑁=20			𝑁=30
𝑛	Median	𝑃	I-II			II-III			III-IV
			𝑛	Median	𝑃	𝑛	Median	𝑃	𝑛	Median	𝑃
20	6.81		7	20.64	<0.01	10	24.95	<0.01	13	47.97	<0.01

(b)

Normal			Tumor (HBV)
𝑁=20			𝑁=30
𝑛	Median	𝑃	−			+
			𝑛	Median	𝑃	𝑛	Median	𝑃
20	6.81		12	20.06	<0.01	18	39.32	<0.01