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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2022 Feb 9;128(11):2193–2204. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34109

TABLE 2.

Clinicopathologic Risk Factors Based on Surgical Pathology

Pathology No. (%) <1 Copy/mL 1–100 Copies/mL >100 Copies/mL

Distant metastasis 1 (3) 0 0 1
Gross positive margins 1 (3) 0 0 1
Gross ENE 1 (3) 0 0 1
ENE >1 mm 4 (12) 0 3 1
Focal positive margins 3 (9) 1 2 0
Close margins 4 (12) 3 1 0
PNI 6 (18) 3 2 1
LVI 8 (24) 4 2 2
ENE ≤1 mm 2 (6) 1 1 0
Lymph nodes
 0 4 (12) 4 0 0
 1 17 (51) 10 7 0
 2 7 (21) 6 1 0
 >2 4 (12) 1 2 1

ENE, extranodal extension; LVI, lymphovascular invasion; PNI, perineural invasion.