Table 2 Association between TET1 expression and clinical characteristics in NPC tissues
Characteristics | Number (n = 33) | TET1 expression | p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
None | Low | Moderate | High | |||
Age (years) | ||||||
≧ 48 | 16 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0.778 |
< 48 | 17 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | |
Gender | ||||||
Female | 9 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0.548 |
Male | 24 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 2 | |
WHO histological type | ||||||
I (keratinizing) | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0.401 |
II/III (non-keratinizing) | 28 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 3 | |
Clinical stages | ||||||
I | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0.255 |
II | 13 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | |
III | 12 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
IV | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Lymph node metastasis | ||||||
positive | 21 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 0.179 |
negative | 12 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | |