Identification of Circulating Long Noncoding RNA Linc00152 as a Novel Biomarker for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Table 2

Correlation between clinicopathological features and Linc00152 expression in NSCLC patients.

Characteristics	Numbers	High expression	Low expression	Univariate analysis	Multivariate analysis
Gender				0.276	0.958
Male	54	7	11
Female	18	29	25
Age (years)				0.634	0.155
<60	36	19	17
≥60	36	17	19
Histology subtype				0.336	0.268
ADC	34	14	20
SCC	32	19	13
Other	6	3	3
Tumor size				0.005^∗	0.035^∗
≤3 cm	16	3	13
>3 cm	56	33	23
Tumor stage				0.011^∗	0.717
I/II	50	20	30
III/IV	22	16	6
Lymph node metastasis				0.125	0.420
No	50	14	8
Yes	22	22	28

SCC: squamous cell carcinoma; ADC: adenocarcinoma; was considered significant.