MEX3A and bladder transitional cell carcinoma: The result of logistic regression analysis indicated that high mex3a expression was associated with the papillary type of BLCA (P=0.006, odds ratio [OR]=1.854) (Figure 7) and the older age group diagnosed with BLCA (P=0.027, OR=1.617) (Figure 8), but was not associated with tumor status (P=0.968) or pathologic stage (P=0.816).