Table 2.

Clinicopathologic characteristics of HNSCC patients

Features	All cases	miR-17-5p		p value
		Low (n = 32)	High (n = 32)
Age (years)				0.617
	≤60	17	15
	> 60	15	17
Gender				0.551
	Male	31	30
	Female	1	2
Smoking				0.309
	No	15	11
	Yes	17	21
Drinking				0.448
	No	17	20
	Yes	15	12
Hypertension				0.442
	No	21	18
	Yes	11	14
Diabetes				0.719
	No	28	27
	Yes	4	5
Lymph node metastasis				0.768
	Negative	25	24
	Positive	7	8
TNM stage				0.076
	I + II	17	10
	III + IV	15	22
Differentiation				0.062
	Well+ well-moderately	14	7
	Moderately+ Moderately-poorly	18	25
Recurrence				0.019
	No	25	16
	Yes	7	16
Death				0.095
	No	26	20
	Yes	6	12