From: Circulating miR-200a is a novel molecular biomarker for early-stage renal cell carcinoma
Variables | Training phase | Validation phase | RCC tissue | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normal controls | RCC | P - value | Normal controls | RCC | P - value | ||
n = 26 | n = 26 | n = 73 | n = 73 | n = 10 | |||
Average age (years) | 51.7 ± 8.2 | 53.7 ± 10.5 | 0.430 2 | 54.9 ± 8.0 | 52.7 ± 13.3 | 0.234 2 | 55.7 ± 10.5 |
Age (years) | Â | Â | 0.482 3 | Â | Â | 0.725 3 | Â |
  ≤ 59 | 22 | 20 |  | 48 | 50 |  | 7 |
  > 59 | 4 | 6 |  | 25 | 23 |  | 3 |
Sex | Â | Â | 0.080 3 | Â | Â | 0.118 3 | Â |
 Male | 14 | 20 |  | 30 | 21 |  | 7 |
 Female | 12 | 6 |  | 43 | 52 |  | 3 |
Smoking status | Â | Â | 0.714 3 | Â | Â | 0.644 3 | Â |
 Ever and Current | 4 | 5 |  | 12 | 10 |  | 2 |
 Never | 22 | 21 |  | 61 | 63 |  | 8 |
Alcohol consumption | Â | Â | 0.532 3 | Â | Â | 0.682 3 | Â |
 Ever or Current | 6 | 8 |  | 14 | 16 |  | 3 |
 Never | 20 | 18 |  | 59 | 57 |  | 7 |
Histological types | |||||||
 Clear cell carcinoma | – | 26 |  | – | 73 |  | 10 |
 Other | – | 0 |  | – | 0 |  | 0 |
TNM Stage | |||||||
 I | – | 19 |  | – | 52 |  | 3 |
 II | – | 3 |  | – | 11 |  | 6 |
 III | – | 0 |  | – | 2 |  | 1 |
 IV | – | 3 |  | – | 5 |  | 0 |
 Unknown | – | 1 |  | – | 3 |  | 0 |