Table 1.

Correlation between METTL3 expression and clinicopathological characteristics in nasopharyngeal carcinomas (number = 55, χ²-test).

Variables	Number of cases	METTL3		p-value
		Low	High
Gender
Male	30	19	11	0.509
Female	25	15	10
Age
≤ 45	31	21	10	0.227
>45	24	13	11
Histologic type (WHO)
Differentiation	28	14	14	0.059
Undifferentiation	27	20	7
Primary tumor (T) stage
T1–2	20	9	11	0.051
T3–4	35	25	10
Lymph node (N) metastasis
N0	26	10	16	0.001*
N1–3	29	24	5
Distant metastasis (M)
M0	32	13	19	0.000*
M1	23	21	2
Clinical TNM stage
I–II	24	8	16	0.000*
III–IV	31	26	5

^*Statistically significant.