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Table 1 Characteristics of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and esophageal cancer data

From: The cox-filter method identifies respective subtype-specific lncRNA prognostic signatures for two human cancers

 

Patients (#)

Deaths (#)

Median survival time (days)

p-value (log-rank test)

Esophageal cancer

 Squamous Cell Carcinoma [ESCC]

81

29

763

 

 Adenocarcinoma [EAC]

83

38

801

0.721

Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma [HNSCC]

 Laryngeal [LSCC]

89

25

1838

 

 Hypopharyngeal [HSCC]

6

2

–

0.839

  1. The log-rank tests indicated histological subtype but had no prognostic value for esophageal cancer or HNSCC. For esophageal cancer, this is consistent with previous results. For HNSCC the discrepancy may be attributable to the small sample size of HSCC subtype
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BMC Medical Genomics

ISSN: 1755-8794

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