Research Article
Hsa_circ_0008309 May Be a Potential Biomarker for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Table 2
Correlation between hsa_circ_0008309 expression and clinicopathological characteristics in 45 oral squamous cell carcinoma patients.
| Characteristics | Total cases () | value |
| Sex | | 0.9828 | Male | 34 | | Female | 11 | | Age (years) | | 0.8206 | Range (median) | 29–78 (54) | | <60 | 29 (46.655) | | ≥60 | 16 (66.125) | | Site | | 0.2198 | Tongue | 25 | | Buccal | 8 | | Gingiva | 5 | | Floor of the mouth | 7 | | Clinical stage | | 0.2682 | 0&I + II | 19 | | III + IV | 26 | | Pathological differentiation | | 0.0386 | Well | 19 | | Moderately | 20 | | Poorly | 6 | | LNM | | 0.3176 | Yes | 17 | | No | 28 | |
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. LNM: lymph node metastasis. |