[Retracted] Relationship between miR-338-3p and Clinicopathological Parameters, Prognosis, and STAT3 mRNA Expression in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Table 1

Comparison of miR-338-3p expression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma tissues among different clinicopathological parameters of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients.

Pathological parameters	n	miR-338-3p	T value	value
Gender
Male	45	0.37 ± 0.04	1.684	0.097
Female	26	0.39 ± 0.06
Age (years)
≥30	62	0.42 ± 0.05	2.716	0.025
<30	9	0.38 ± 0.04
Histological type
Nonkeratinized	28	0.37 ± 0.05	0.731	0.467
Keratinized	43	0.38 ± 0.06
Clinical TNM staging
I∼II	30	0.44 ± 0.07	5.817	<0.001
III∼IV	41	0.35 ± 0.06
T staging
T1∼T2	22	0.42 ± 0.06	2.903	0.005
T3∼T4	49	0.37 ± 0.07
N staging
N1∼N2	18	0.40 ± 0.06	0.611	0.543
N3∼N4	53	0.41 ± 0.07
M staging
M0	61	0.38 ± 0.07	0.877	0.384
M1	10	0.36 ± 0.04
Differentiation
Medium and high differentiation	31	0.40 ± 0.04	1.820	0.073
Low, undifferentiated	40	0.38 ± 0.05
Distant metastasis
No	44	0.41 ± 0.07	3.236	0.002
Yes	27	0.36 ± 0.05