showed a trendP= 0.0790
The K-M survival analysis revealed that patients with high NOK expression (median survival time: 12.0 months) showed a trend of shorter OS than those of low NOK expression (median survival time: 19.5 months, P= 0.0790; Supplementary Figure 1 ), which was consistent with our previous study. 12 The association between NOK expression and the clinicopathological variables was analyzed ( Table 1 ).