Table 1.

Clinicopathological characteristics of HSCC patients and relative expression of UCA1

Characteristics	Cases	UCA1 relative expression		P value
		Low	High
Age, years				0.213
< 60	28	12	16
≥ 60	25	15	10
T category				0.034
T1-T2	22	15	7
T3-T4	31	12	19
Lymph node metastasis				0.020
N0	27	18	9
N1-2	26	9	17
Clinical stage				0.021
I-II	16	12	4
III-IV	37	15	22
Differentiation				0.613
Well	8	5	3
Moderate	21	9	12
Poor	24	13	11