Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the TCGA-THCA dataset

Clinical characteristic	TCGA-THCA (n = 501)	Percentage
Survival status
Alive	485	96.8%
Dead	16	3.2%
Age
≥ 65	76	15.2%
< 65	425	84.8%
Gender
Female	366	73.1%
Male	135	26.9%
T
T1	142	28.3%
T2	164	32.7%
T3	170	33.9%
T4	23	4.6%
TX	2	0.5%
N
N0	229	45.7%
N1	222	44.3%
NX	50	10.0%
M
M0	282	55.3%
M1	9	1.8%
MX	210	42.9%
AJCC stage
Stage I	281	56.1%
Stage II	52	10.4%
Stage III	111	22.2%
Stage IV	55	10.9%
Unknown	2	0.4%