Table I.

Clinicopathological variables in 42 nasopharyngeal cancer patients.

		GATA4 protein expression, n
Variables	Patients, n	Low (n=13)	High (n=29)	P-value
Sex				0.555
Male	19	5	14
Female	23	8	15
Age, years				0.588
<55	20	7	13
≥55	22	6	16
Tumor size, diameter				0.038
Small (<1 cm)	16	8	8
Large (≥1 cm)	26	5	21
Pathological stage				0.032
I–II	13	7	6
III–IV	29	6	23
Metastasis				0.015
Yes	30	6	24
No	12	7	5