Prognosis evaluation of clinical samples using gene signatures proposed by Salt et al. (EMT_Salt) [12], Byers et al. (EMT_76GS) [41], and CAF index. (a) EMT scores for the Taiwanese OSCC cell line cohort (GSE150469) computed by two methods are reversely correlated with each other. Note that K2 and K6 are oral keratinocytes immortalized with HPV16 E6/E7 [49], serving as controls for the 5 OSCC cell lines. (b) Univariate (left), multivariate (middle) Cox hazards assessments, and Kaplan–Meier survival plot (right) of NCKU-OrCA-40T. (c) Same to (b), except the TCGA pan-cancer dataset was used. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001.