Identification of a novel prognosis-associated ceRNA network in lung adenocarcinoma via bioinformatics analysis

Table 3 The clinicopathological characteristics of LUAD samples downloaded from TCGA database

Clinicopathological characteristics	Patients (N = 514)
Clinicopathological characteristics	N	%
Age
< 68	280	54.4
≥ 68	224	43.6
Gender
Male	240	46.7
Female	274	53.3
Pathologic staging
Stage I	279	54.3
Stage II	122	23.7
Stage III	78	15.2
Stage V	26	2.5
Pathologic T
T1	172	33.5
T2	277	53.9
T3	46	4.4
T4	18	1.7
Tx	4	< 0.3
Pathologic N
NO	335	32.5
N1	95	9.2
N2	68	6.6
N3	2	< 0.1
Pathologic M
MO	340	33.0
M1	25	4.86
Mx	144	14.0
Vital status
Alive	333	32.3
Dead	181	17.6

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