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

Table 8 Comparison of Huang et al.’s recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) staging against IUCC/AJCC staging for the oropharyngeal subsite

Stages at presentation		RPA staging	IUCC/AJCC staging	p-value^*
Oropharyngeal Subsite	1 or 2	92(75 %)	12(10 %)	<0.001
	3 or 4	29(24 %)	109(89 %)
	Unknown	1(1 %)	1(1 %)

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