Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of 105 NPC patients according to YTHDC2 expression levels.

	YTHDC2
Feature	Low	High	n	χ2	P
All cases	64	41	105
Gender
Male	44	21	65	3.257	0.099
Female	20	20	40
Age (years)
≤50	38	31	69	2.923	0.097
>50	26	10	36
TMN
Stage I + Stage II	40	21	61	1.306	0.312
Stage III + Stage IV	24	20	44
Tumor size (mm)
≤30	33	17	50	1.022	0.326
>30	31	24	55
Radiotherapy effect
Complete response	37	15	52	4.505	0.034*
Partial response	27	26	53
Pathological type
Undifferentiated non-keratinizing carcinoma	29	18	47	0.02	0.887
Differentiated non-keratinizing carcinoma	35	23	58

χ² test was used to test the association between two categorical variables.

^*Statistically significant.