Furthermore, compared to the relationship between clinicopathological factors and the expression of RIOK1 in 112 cases of NSCLC, As shown in Table 1, no difference was observed between RIOK1 expression level and patient age (p=0.951), gender (p=0.28), smoking history (p=0.821) or pathologic type (p=0.479). This evidence concerns the gene RIOK1 and non-small cell lung carcinoma.