ELAVL1 and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: As summarized in Table 3, statistical analysis demonstrated that high-expression levels of nuclear HuR were correlated with the depth of invasion (p = 0.040), TNM stage (p = 0.009), tumor size (p = 0.019) and TTP expression (p = 0.017), but were not correlated with sex, age, distant metastasis, lymph node metastasis, differentiation status or aberrant cytoplasmic HuR expression (Table 3).