Applied Cancer Research

Table 4 Association between clinical presentation and pathological characteristics in HPV infected patients with anal cancer

From: Prevalence of human papillomavirus infection in squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal in a Northeast City in Brazil: viral genotyping and clinical aspects

	HPV (+) N = 22	HPV (-) N = 5	p
Gender			0.1751^a
Female	17	3
Male	05	2
Site of primary tumor			0.2386^a
Anal Margin	3	-
Anal Canal	15	5
Anal Margin and Canal	3	3
Lesion type			0.7809^a
Ulceration	3	1
Vegetating	2	-
Ulceration and Vegetating	5	1
Stenosing	1	-
Non evaluated	10	06
Size of the lesion (cm)			0.3657^a
≤ 0.5	-	1
0.6–2.0	6	2
2.1–5.0	11	4
≥ 5.1	03	-
UJCC/TNM Staging			0.7542^a
I	-	1
II	2	-
III	9	-
IV	-	-
Non evaluated	9	6
Lymph node involvement			0.3133*
Yes	7	-
No	11	5
Non evaluated	2	2
Inflammatory process			0.3017^a
Yes	3	2
No	12	2
Non evaluated	6	4

Significant p values < 0.05
^a Fisher’s test
* Chi-square

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