Table 2.
Patients and disease characteristics.
| Characteristics | Group 1 (n=17) N. |
Group 2 (n=13) N. |
P-value* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (y) | |||
| Median (range) | 54 (42–82) | 58 (52–79) | 0.24 |
|
| |||
| Sex | |||
| Male | 15 | 13 | 0.20 |
| Female | 2 | 0 | |
|
| |||
| T Stage | |||
| T1 | 2 | 1 | |
| T2 | 7 | 7 | 0.92 |
| T3 | 5 | 3 | |
| T4 | 3 | 2 | |
| Tx | 0 | 0 | |
|
| |||
| N Stage | |||
| N0 | 2 | 1 | |
| N1 | 1 | 3 | 0.48 |
| N2 | 14 | 10 | |
| N3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nx | 0 | 0 | |
|
| |||
| Primary sites | |||
| Base of Tongue | 11 | 8 | 0.97 |
| Tonsil | 5 | 4 | |
| Glossopharyngeal sulcus | 1 | 1 | |
*
P values were calculated with the use of Pearson’s chi-square test for all comparisons, except age using 2-sample t-test.