Table 3. Association between the CONUT score and clinicopathological factors in patients with resected SCC.

Factors	N	CONUT score		P value
		Low (n=76)	High (n=32)
Age (years)				0.525
<70	47	35	12
≥70	61	41	20
Sex				0.747
Female	12	8	4
Male	96	68	28
Smoking history				1.000
Never-smoker	33	23	10
Smoker	75	53	22
BMI (kg/m2)				0.094
≥20	47	29	18
<20	61	47	14
Pathological T status				0.267
1	37	29	8
≥2	71	47	24
Pathological N status				0.153
0	79	59	20
≥1	29	17	12
Pathological stage				0.209
I	61	46	15
≥II	47	30	17
G				0.765
1	15	10	5
2, 3	93	66	27
PL				0.391
Negative	65	48	17
Positive	43	28	15
LY				0.554
Negative	92	66	26
Positive	16	10	6
V				0.673
Negative	59	43	16
Positive	49	33	16
Surgical procedure
≥ Lobectomy	80	57	23
Sublobar resection	28	19	9
Adjuvant chemotherapy				0.136
None	93	68	25
Administered	15	8	7

CONUT, controlling nutrition status; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; BMI, body mass index; PL, pleural invasion; LY, lymphatic invasion; V, vascular invasion.