Table 1.

Correlation between SYT12 expression and clinical classification in OSCCs.

Clinical classification		Results of immunostaining No. patients
	Total	SYT12 negative	SYT12 positive	P value
Age at surgery (years)
< 60	26	12	14	0.823
≧60	86	44	42
Gender
Male	66	32	34	0.706
Female	46	24	22
T-primary tumor
T1+T2	64	38	26	0.035‡
T3+T4	48	18	30
N-regional lymph node
Negative	74	43	31	0.028‡
Positive	38	13	25
TNM Stage
I+II	46	30	16	0.012‡
III+IV	66	26	40
Vascular invasion
Negative	88	48	40	0.106
Positive	24	8	16
Histopathologic type
Well	86	45	41	0.503
Moderately+Poorly	26	11	15

Fisher's exact test, ^‡P < 0.05.