Table 1.

Correlation Between Clinicopathological Characteristics and circ-ITCH Expression in 103 OSCC Patients

Characteristics	Total Number (N=103)	circ-ITCH Expression		P value
		Low (N=57)	High (N=46)
Age (years)				0.261
≥55	60	36	24
<55	43	21	22
Gender				0.725
Male	63	34	29
Female	40	23	17
Tumor differentiation				0.234
Well	56	28	28
Moderate + Poor	47	29	18
Lymph node metastasis				0.035
Yes	36	25	11
No	67	32	35
TNM stage				0.027
I–II	64	30	34
III–IV	39	27	12