Skip to main content

Table 4 Disease characteristics

From: A different entity: a population based study of characteristics and recurrence patterns in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas

Pathological factors

Oropharygneal

Non-oropharyngeal

p-value*

Tumour size (n = 253)

≤2

31(25 %)

72(37 %)

0.0061

>2

72(59 %)

78(40 %)

Unknown

19(16 %)

46(23 %)

Node Status (n = 315)

Negative

19(16 %)

138(70 %)

<0.0001

Positive

103(84 %)

55(28 %)

Unknown

0(0 %)

3(2 %)

Metastasis (n = 313)

No

121(99 %)

190(97 %)

0.5242

Yes

0(0 %)

2(1 %)

Unknown

1(1 %)

4(2 %)

Overall TMN Stage (n = 313)

<4

66(54 %)

128(65 %)

0.0315

4

55(45 %)

64(33 %)

Unknown

1(1 %)

4(2 %)

Keratinization (n = 169)

Non-Keratinizing

25(20 %)

17(9 %)

<0.0001

Keratinizing

33(27 %)

94(48 %)

Unknown

64(52 %)

85(43 %)

Grade (n = 267)

≥3

49(40 %)

42(21 %)

<0.0001 a

2

41(34 %)

108(55 %)

1

1(1 %)

26(13 %)

Unknown

31(25 %)

20(10 %)

p16 Status (n = 57)

Negative

8(7 %)

11(6 %)

<0.0001

Positive

37(30 %)

1(1 %)

Unknown

77(63 %)

184(94 %)

  1. * α = 0.05, significant results in bold using chi-square test; aWald test applied