Table III.

Association between TNC expression and the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with NPC.

	Number of patients	TNC expression (n)
Characteristic	Total, 115	Low	High	High expression rate, %	P-value
Age, years					0.703
<50	51	18	33	64.7
>50	64	25	39	60.9
Sex
Male	78	29	47	60.3	0.842
Female	37	14	25	67.6
T stage					0.001a
T1-T2	39	23	16	41.0
T3-T4	76	20	56	73.7
N stage					<0.0001b
N0-N1	52	32	20	38.5
N2-N3	63	11	52	82.5

^aP<0.01

^bP<0.001. ‘−’ and ‘+’ were classified as low TNC expression, while ‘++’ and ‘+++’ were classified as high TNC expression. TNC, tenascin-C; NPC, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.