Table 2.

Correlation Between the Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Expression of miR-762 in HNSCC Cases

Characteristics	Number	Patients with miR-762 Expression		p-value
Low	High
Age (years)
≥60	25	9 (36%)	16 (64%)	0.05
<60	43	25 (58.14%)	18 (41.86%)
Gender
Male	48	23 (47.92%)	25 (52.08%)	0.76
Female	20	11 (55%)	9 (45%)
Smoking status
Smokers	35	18 (51.43%)	17 (48.57%)	0.71
Nonsmokers	33	16 (48.48%)	17 (51.52%)
TNM stage
I-II	33	20 (60.61%)	13 (39.39%)	<0.01
III-IV	35	14 (40%)	21 (60%)
T classification
T1-T2	46	25 (54.35%)	21 (45.65%)	0.14
T3-T4	22	9 (40.91%)	13 (59.09%)
N classification
N0-N1	48	26 (54.17%)	22 (45.83%)	0.56
N2-N3	20	9 (45%)	11 (55%)
Distant metastasis
Yes	5	2 (40%)	3 (60%)	0.35
No	63	32 (50%)	31 (49.21%)

Note: Distant metastasis represented the M classification.