Table 1.

Association Between Clinicopathologic Parameters and Level of Transmembrane Protease Serine 4 Protein Expression in Patients with Thyroid Cancer

	TMPRSS4
Clinicopathologic variables	Low	High	p value
Age
<45 yr	27	34	0.141
≥45 yr	16	36
Sex
Male	14	15	0.188
Female	29	55
TNM stage
I and II	41	38	<0.001
III and IV	2	32
T classification
T1 and T2	40	51	0.009
T3 and T4	3	19
N classification
N0	29	31	0.017
N1	14	39

TMPRSS4, transmembrane protease serine 4.