STARD4 and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: χ2 analysis revealed that the high expression level of serum STARD4-AS1 expression correlated with T stage, lymph node metastasis, and tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stage but not with sex, age, tumor size, differentiation degree, neuro/vascular invasion, Lauren staging, or other clinicopathologic parameters (Table 1).