Table 5.

Difference of Clinical and Genetic Profiles Compare Against TCGA Data

	Chinese	TCGA	p value*
Mean age	44.43	46.79	0.013
Male (%)	0.251	0.268	0.570
T3 + T4 (%)	0.142	0.347	<0.001
N1 (%)	0.549	0.443	0.002
N1b (%)	0.182	0.141	0.106
Gene fusion events (%)	0.071	0.149	<0.001
RAS mutation (%)	0.020	0.105	<0.001
BRAF mutation (%)	0.785	0.508	<0.001
TERT mutation (%)	0.023	0.073	<0.001

Note: *The t-test was performed to examine the mean value between data from this study and TCGA data.

Abbreviation: TCGA, The Cancer Genome Atlas.