Table 1.

The associations between SUZ12 expression and multiple clinicopathological parameters in primary TSCC

Clinicopathological parameters	Cases	SUZ12		P values
		Lowa	High
Gender		35	37	0.486
Male	40	21	19
Female	32	14	18
Age
≤60	40	17	23	0.3429
>60	32	18	14
Smoking
No	37	19	18	0.6324
Yes	35	16	19
Alcohol use
No	40	22	18	0.2253
Yes	32	13	19
Tumor size
T1–T2	58	29	29	0.7683
T3–T4	14	6	8
Pathological grade
I	32	19	13	0.1542
II–III	40	16	24
Cervical node metastasis
N(0)	38	23	15	0.0325
N(+)	34	12	22
Clinical stage
I–II	36	21	15	0.1567
III–IV	36	14	22

The number in italic indicate statistical significance with p values <0.05

^aBoth of patients with low and negative SUZ12 staining are stratified into low SUZ12 category for simplicity