Clinical pathological features of 124 nasopharyngeal carcinomas
| Variable | n (%) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 95 (76.6) |
| Female | 29 (23.4) |
| Age (years) | |
| <60 | 98 (79.0) |
| ≥60 | 26 (21.0) |
| Primary tumour (T) | |
| T1 | 30 (24.2) |
| T2 | 50 (40.3) |
| T3 | 21 (16.9) |
| T4 | 23 (18.5) |
| Nodal status (N) | |
| N0 | 24 (19.4) |
| N1 | 32 (25.8) |
| N2 | 48 (38.7) |
| N3 | 20 (16.1) |
| Stage | |
| I | 7 (5.6) |
| II | 31 (25.0) |
| III | 46 (37.1) |
| IV | 40 (32.2) |
| Histological grade | |
| Keratinising | 5 (4.0) |
| Non-keratinising/differentiated | 54 (43.5) |
| Non-keratinising/undifferentiated | 65 (52.4) |
| EMP2 expression level | |
| Positive (>5% tumour cells) | 63 (50.8) |
| Negative (≤5% tumour cells) | 61 (49.2) |