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Table 2 Tumour patient cases in this study

From: Cytokeratin 8/18 expression indicates a poor prognosis in squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity

Age (mean)

58 years (range 31 – 90 years)

Sex

240 men, 68 women

Follow-up (mean)

64 months (range 4 – 181 months)

T stadium

135 T1 tumours

 

125 T2 tumours

 

15 T3 tumours

 

33 T2 tumours

N stadium

212 N0 lymph node negative

 

57 N1 lymph node positive carcinoma

 

39 N2 lymph node positive carcinoma

Grading

54 well differentiated tumours (G1)

 

214 moderately differentiated tumours (G2)

 

40 weakly differentiated tumours (G3)