Table 1.

The demographic data of the enrolled patients (n = 48).

Items	N	Low-METTL3 (n = 24)	High-METTL3 (n = 24)	P value
Age (y)
≤50	23	11	12	0.7726
>50	25	13	12
Tumor size
≤2 CM	25	17	8	0.0093∗
>2 CM	23	7	16
TNM staging
I∼II	28	19	9	0.0034∗
III∼IV	20	5	15
Lymph node metastasis
No	25	18	7	0.0015∗
Yes	23	6	17

^∗ P < 0.01.