Upregulated Expression of SOX4 Is Associated with Tumor Growth and Metastasis in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Table 1

The association between the expression of SOX4 and clinicopathological parameters of NPC.

Clinicopathological parameters	Total	SOX4 expression
		Low	High
Gender	55
Male	43	17	26	0.574
Female	12	5	7
Age (year)
<50	14	5	9	0.762
50	41	17	24
Clinical stages
I	2	2	0
II	8	6	2
III	29	10	19
IV	16	4	12
Lymph node metastasis
yes	37	11	26
no	18	11	7
Ki-67 expression
low	25	16	9
high	30	6	24

Statistical analyses were performed by the Pearson test. was considered significant.