Table 4.

Pathological data of patients in the obese, pre-opbese and non-obese groups

	Obese (n=9)	Preobese (n=11)	Nonobese (n=49)	P-value
Depth of invasion
m	1 (11.1%)	0	2 (4.1 %)	0.296
sm	7 (77.8%)	5 (45.5%)	34 (69.4%)
mp	1 (11.1%)	4 (36.4%)	6 (12.2%)
ss	0	2 (18.2%)	7 (4.3%)
No. of nodes
Median (range)	10 (4-16)	12 (2-28)	14 (2-47)	0.305
Pathological stage
Stage 0	2 (22.2%)	0	3 (6.1 %)	0.517
Stage I	6 (66.7%)	8 (72.7%)	31 (63.3%)
Stage II	0	2 (18.2%)	4 (8.2%)
Stage III a	1 (11.1%)	1 (9.1 %)	9 (8.4%)
Stage III b	0	0	2 (4.1%)