Journal of Translational Medicine

Table 1 Distribution of the clinical status of patients in this study

From: microRNA expression pattern as an ancillary prognostic signature for radiotherapy

	Before radiation
	Screening set (n = 8)							Training set (n = 38)
	Poor response			Response			P	Poor response			Response			P
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	P	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	P
Type^b
H&N	2			2			1	8			17			0.69
Colorectal	2			2				5			8
Age^a	4	69.75	16.24	4	62	16.81	0.52	13	61.54	15.03	25	61.08	15.21	0.93
Sex^b
Female	1			1			1	6			13			0.732
Male	3			3				7			12
Stage^b
I	1			1			0.23	1			4			0.111
II	0			2				0			6
III	3			1				4			8
IV	0			0				8			7
Total dosage^a (Gy)	3	63.87	11.68	4	60.25	11.37	0.69	13	66.18	7.58	24	63.61	9.29	0.398
Chemotherapy^b	4			4			1	13			25			0.728

	Before radiation
	Testing (n = 24)
	Poor response			Response			P
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	P
Type^b
H&N	1			10			0.902
Colorectal	1			12
Age^a	2	69.5	9.19	22	54.45	11.99	0.1
Sex^b
Female	2			15			0.343
Male	0			7
Stage^b
I	0			3			0.081
II	0			6
III	0			8
IV	2			5
Total dosage^a (Gy)	2	60.2	13.86	22	58.03	14.7	0.843
Chemotherapy^b	2			22			0.577

	After radiation
	Screening set (n = 7)							Training set (n = 31)
	Poor response			Response			P	Poor response			Response			P
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	P	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	P
Type^b
H&N	2			2			0.66	7			15			0.94
Colorectal	1			2				3			6
Age^a	3	62.67	9.71	4	62	16.81	0.95	10	58.6	13.23	21	60.29	14.73	0.75
Sex^b
Female	1			1			0.81	5			11			0.9
Male	2			3				5			10
Stage^b
I	0			1			0.14	0			3			0.042*
II	0			2				0			5
III	3			1				2			7
IV	0			0				8			6
Total dosage^a (Gy)	2	70.6	0.85	4	60.25	11.37	0.29	10	66.88	6.63	20	64.28	9.01	0.43
Chemotherapy^b	3			4			0.81	10			21			0.36

	After radiation
	Testing (n = 24)
	Poor response			Response			P
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD
Type^b
H&N	1			10			0.902
Colorectal	1			12
Age^a	2	69.5	9.19	22	54.45	11.99	0.1
Sex^b
Female	2			15			0.343
Male	0			7
Stage^b
I	0			3			0.081
II	0			6
III	0			8
IV	2			5
Total dosage^a (Gy)	2	60.2	13.86	22	58.03	14.7	0.843
Chemotherapy^b	2			22			0.577

Each groups were well matched for age, gender. Mean, average of each samples
SD standard deviation, M male, F female
*P value < 0.05
^aIndependent samples test
^bPearson Chi Square

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