Table 1.
The clinical characteristics of the study population.
| Features | N | HOX10 | P value | |
| low | high | |||
| Gender | 0.6684 | |||
| Male | 25 | 7 | 18 | |
| Female | 18 | 4 | 14 | |
| Age at diagnosis | 0.4459 | |||
| ≤60 | 29 | 9 | 20 | |
| >60 | 14 | 6 | 8 | |
| TNM stage | 0.0177* | |||
| I-II | 17 | 10 | 7 | |
| III-IV | 26 | 6 | 20 | |
| Histological grade | 0.0001* | |||
| G1-2 | 26 | 20 | 6 | |
| G3 | 17 | 3 | 14 | |
| HPV status | 0.004* | |||
| Positive | 20 | 14 | 6 | |
| Negative | 23 | 6 | 17 | |
| Smoking history | 0.0161* | |||
| Never smoked | 6 | 5 | 1 | |
| Ex-smoker >1 year | 7 | 2 | 5 | |
| Current smoker | 30 | 7 | 23 | |
| Alcohol history | 0.01* | |||
| Nil | 8 | 7 | 1 | |
| Never heavy | 15 | 10 | 5 | |
| Currently heavy | 20 | 6 | 14 | |
| Antomic site | 0.2385 | |||
| Oropharnyx | 18 | 7 | 11 | |
| Hypopharynx | 5 | 2 | 3 | |
| Larynx | 20 | 13 | 7 | |