Table 1.

Patient clinicopathological features and TPPP3 expression.

Variables	TPPP3 expression level
	Low N=38	High N=38	P-value
Gender
Female	16	20	0.4910
Male	22	18
Age, y
≤60	17	13	0.4818
>60	21	25
Location
Left	18	19	1.0000
Right	20	19
Histology
Adenocarcinoma	29	24	0.3180
Squamous cell carcinoma	9	14
Tumor Size (cm)
≤3	28	14	0.0010
>3	9	24
Lymph node metastasis
Yes	11	23	0.0107
No	27	15
Clinical Stage
I-II	31	18	0.0036
III	7	20