The oncogenic effects of HES1 on salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma cell growth and metastasis

BMC Cancer

Table 4 The expression of HES1 in clinical and pathological characteristics of SACC

Characteristics	Total	Low HES1^a	High HES1^a	P value
Gender
Female	23	19	4	0.693
Male	37	29	8
Age
≤55	29	25	4	0.249
> 55	31	23	8
Stage
Early	19	32	1	0.001***
Late	14	16	11
Invasion
No	28	25	3	0.095
Yes	32	23	9
Metastasis (Lymph node and distant)
No	52	44	8	0.024**
Yes	8	4	4

^aBecause of limited SACC clinical samples, the expression of HES1 was divided into two levels, in which low expression included the negative and weakly positive as shown in Fig. 3 and Table 3, and high expression included positive and strongly positive
** P < 0.05. ***P < 0.01

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