Table 3.

MYOSLID expression and clinicopathological Characteristics of patients with HNSCC(n = 90)

Characteristics	MYOSLID		χ2	p value
	Low expression (n = 46)	High expression (n = 44)
Age(y)
< 60	23	26	0.749	0.387
≥ 60	23	18
Gender
Male	41	34	2.277	0.131
Female	5	10
Smoke
Yes	27	20	1.580	0.209
No	19	24
Drink
Yes	23	21	0.046	0.829
No	23	23
Stage
Stage I/II	39	38	0.045	0.831
Stage III/IV	7	6
T
T1 + T2	27	28	2.985	0.394
T3 + T4	19	16
N
Yes	30	25	0.472	0.492
No	16	18

Note: HNSCC patient were divided into MYOSLID low and MYOSLID high group according to the cut off value (median = 2.453)

p < 0.05 was considered statistic significant. Differences among variables were evaluated by χ2 or Fisher’s exact χ2 -test