Table 2. Patients details including age, stage, Tobacco habit, alcohol consumption status, demography and gender shown in the table.
| Study Characteristic | No. |
|---|---|
| Age at diagnosis, years | |
| Mean ± SD | 64.9 ± 14.5 |
| Median | 42 |
| Clinical stage | |
| Stage I | 2 |
| Stage II | 15 |
| Stage III | 8 |
| Stage IVa | 17 |
| Not reported | 1 |
| Tobacco habit (Smoking) | |
| Yes | 17 |
| No | 26 |
| Alcohol consumption status | |
| Yes | 22 |
| No | 19 |
| Not reported | 2 |
| Gender | |
| Male | 29 |
| Female | 14 |
| Demographic details | |
| White | 39 |
| Asian | 1 |
| Black or african american | 2 |
| not reported | 1 |
Matched Tumor/Normal pairs of each HNSCC patient was retrieved from TCGA database.