Table 1. Relationship between MIA or STOX2 expression and clinicopathological parameters in OSCCs.

Parameters	MIA		STOX2
	negative	positive	negative	positive
Gender
Male	80	55	93	42
Female	37	30	51	16
P value	0.6504		0.3242
Age
<-65	46	36	57	25
>65	71	49	87	33
P value	0.6666		0.7517
Site
Tongue	55	41	68	28
Gingiva	38	32	49	21
Other	24	12	27	9
P value	0.3713		0.8569
Histological differentiation*
Well	54	45	63	36
Moderately	50	34	66	18
Poorly	13	6	15	4
P value	0.4939		0.0622
T classification
Tis, T1	14	11	14	11
T2	29	22	38	13
T3	44	19	44	19
T4	30	33	48	15
P value	0.0906		0.2705
Clinical stage
I	14	11	14	11
II	29	16	37	8
III	41	20	43	18
IV	33	38	50	21
P value	0.0786		0.1370
Nodal metastasis
Negative	92	34	102	24
Positive	25	51	42	34
P value	< 0.0001		0.0002
MIA
Negative	-	-	102	15
Positive	-	-	42	43
P value	-		<0.0001

Relationship between STOX2 expression and each parameters were calculated by χ² test or Fisher's exact test. T classification and clinical stage were classified according to the TNM classification.