Table 1.

Positive cytology according to Tumor, Nodal and Metastasis stage

	Number of patients (n = 60)	Positive Cytology (n = 5)	Percentage (%)	P- value
Tumor stage
T1	5	0	-	NS
T2	16	0	-	NS
T3	34	4	11.7	0.309
T4	5	1	20	0.09+
Nodal stage
N 0	27	0	-	NS
N I	21	1	4.7	0.344
N II	8	3	37.5	0.061*
N III	4	1	25	0.067*
Metastasis stage
M 0	60	−	-	NS

+ Suggestive significance (P value: 0.05 < P < 0.10)* Moderately significant (P value: 0.01 < P □ 0.05)** Strongly significant (P value: P < 0.01)