UCA1 and neoplasm: Clinicopathological analysis showed that UCA1 was significantly correlated with advanced TNM stage (P < 0.001) and metastasis (P < 0.001); whereas, there was no significant correlation between UCA1 and other clinicopathological characteristics such as gender, age, tumor size, serum AFP level and degree of histological differentiation, (P > 0.05, Table 1).