Overexpression of Laminin 5γ2 Chain Correlates with Tumor Cell Proliferation, Invasion, and Poor Prognosis in Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Table 1

Relationship between LAMC2 expression and clinicopathologic parameters of LSCC patients.

Characteristic	Number of cases	LAMC2-low expression group (n = 23)	LAMC2-high expression group (n = 23)	χ^2	-value
Gender
Male	19	10	9	0.09	0.765
Female	27	13	14
Primary site
Supralarynx	29	14	15	0.093	0.760
Glottic type	17	9	8
Tumor stage
T1 + T2	26	21	5	22.646	0.000
T3 + T4	20	2	18
The degree of differentiation
High differentiation	22	9	13	1.394	0.238
Low/moderate differentiation	24	14	10
Lymph node metastasis
Yes	22	5	17	12.545	0.000
No	24	18	6
TNM stage
I + II	25	17	8	7.097	0.008
III + IV	21	6	15