Table 2.

Associations of periostin expression with other important clinicopathologic variables

Parameters	Category	Periostin expression, n		p-value
		Low	High
Gender	Male	43	52	0.056
	Female	19	10
Age (years)	<60	51	47	0.378
	≥60	11	15
Primary tumor (T)	T1–T2	42	38	0.453
	T3–T4	20	24
Nodal status (N)	N0–N1	36	20	0.004*
	N2–N3	26	42
Stage	I–II	26	12	0.006*
	III–IV	36	50
Histological grade	Keratinized	3	2	0.814
	Non-keratinized	28	26
	Undifferentiated	31	34

Note:

^*Statistically significant.