Table 1.
Clinical and pathological features of the patients.
| Variables | Number (%) |
|---|---|
| Total number of patients | 78 (100) |
| Age | |
| Median | 58.5 |
| Range | 43–87 |
| Gender | |
| Male | 55 (70) |
| Female | 23 (30) |
| Tumor sites | |
| Oropharynx | 78 (100) |
| p16 expression | |
| Positive | 26 (33) |
| Negative | 47 (60) |
| Grading | |
| II | 44 (56) |
| III | 31 (40) |
| Smoking | |
| Never smoker | 10 (13) |
| >20 pack years | 45 (58) |
| Alcoholics | 35 (45) |
| Recurrent tumors | 9 (12) |
| Primary therapy | |
| RT/RCT/RIT | 4 (5) |
| IC±RT/RCT/RIT±OP | 24 (31) |
| OP±Ø/RT/RCT | 47 (60) |
| Palliative CTx | 3 (4) |
| T-category | |
| 1 | 21 (27) |
| 2 | 23 (30) |
| 3 | 13 (17) |
| 4a | 20 (26) |
| 4b | 1 (1) |
| N-category | |
| 0 | 26 (33) |
| 1 | 7 (9) |
| 2a | 4 (5) |
| 2b | 21 (27) |
| 2c | 19 (24) |
| 3 | 1 (1) |
| M-category | |
| 0 | 68 (87) |
| 1 | 10 (13) |
| UICC stage | |
| I | 6 (8) |
| II | 11 (14) |
| III | 12 (15) |
| IVa | 37 (47) |
| IVb | 2 (3) |
| IVc | 10 (13) |