TABLE 1.
Clinicopathological variables in 128 patients with primary oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma
| Gender | Patients (n = 128) (%) |
| Male | 77 (60.2) |
| Female | 51 (39.8) |
| Age at diagnosis, years | |
|
0–59 |
43 (33.6) |
|
≥60 |
85 (66.4) |
| Smoking history | |
| Never smoker | 30 (23.4) |
| Former smoker | 28 (21.9) |
| Current smoker | 56 (43.8) |
| Unknown | 14 (10.9) |
| Alcohol consumption | |
| Never drinker | 12 (9.4) |
| Seldom (≤1 times weekly) | 26 (20.3) |
| Moderately/heavy drinking (>1 times weekly or daily) | 39 (30.5) |
| Unknown | 51 (39.9) |
| Tumor differentiation | |
| Well | 23 (17.9) |
| Moderately | 88 (68.8) |
| Poor | 12 (9.4) |
| Unknown | 5 (3.9) |
| cT status | |
| cT1/cT2 | 101 (78.9) |
| cT3/cT4 | 25 (19.5) |
| Unknown | 2 (1.6) |
| cN status | |
| N0 | 93 (72.7) |
| N+ | 31 (24.3) |
| Unknown | 4 (3.2) |