The effect of epiregulin on epidermal growth factor receptor expression and proliferation of oral squamous cell carcinoma cell lines

Table 1 Clinicopathological characteristics of the H-series cell lines

Cell line	Nationality	Age	Sex	Site^a(S)	Size (T)	Nodal metastasis (N)	Distant metastasis (M)	Pathology^b(P)	STNMP grade^c
H103	British	32	M	T	< 20	-	-	W	I
H157	British	84	M	BM	20-40	+	-	W	II
H314	British	82	M	FOM	20-40	+	-	M	II
H357	British	74	M	T	< 20	-	-	W	I
H376	British	40	F	FOM	20-40	+	-	W	III
H400	British	55	F	AP	20-40	-	-	M	II
H413	British	53	F	BM	20-40	-	-	M	II

^aSite: T, tongue; BM, buccal mucosa; FOM, floor of mouth; AP, alveolar process.
^bPathology: W, well-differentiated; M, moderately-differentiated; P, poorly-differentiated.
^cSTNMP grade: prognostic indicator for OSCC with 51.5%, 40.7%, 21.6% and 8.3% 5 year survival for patients with a stage I, II, III or IV tumours, respectively.

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