Research Article
Proteomic Study of HPV-Positive Head and Neck Cancers: Preliminary Results
Table 2
Clinical data of the 100 oral SCC patients.
| Variables | Number of cases |
| Age (years) | | Range | 36–90 | Mean | 58 | Sex | | Male | 82 | Female | 18 | Anatomic site | | Cheeks | 4 | Mouth floor | 32 | Tongue | 36 | Gums | 8 | Mandible | 5 | Palate | 2 | Retromolar trigone | 2 | Lips | 2 | Other | 9 | Grade (differentiation) | | Well | 30 | Moderately | 51 | Poorly | 19 | TNM stage | | T1-T2 | 72 | T3-T4 | 28 | N stage | | N0 | 53 | N1 | 12 | N2 | 33 | N3 | 2 | Metastasis | | M0 | 100 | M1 | 0 | Risk factors | | Tobacco (90 cases) | | Smoker | 67 | Nonsmoker | 16 | Former smoker | 7 | Alcohol (90 cases) | | Drinker | 58 | Nondrinker | 9 | Former drinker | 23 | Histology | | Bone infiltration | 2 | Perineural invasion | 10 | Positive node | 19 | Capsular evasion | 11 | Recurrence | | Local | 11 | Ganglionic | 6 | Distant metastases | 4 |
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