Patient Characteristics
The study cohort contained 180 cases of CC with high quality TMA. The median age of the patients was 46 years (range, 23-71 years). The histological diagnosis was all squamous cell carcinoma and based on the FIGO 2009 guidelines, nineteen (21.1%) subjects were stage IB1, twenty (22.2%) subjects were stage IB2, twenty-nine (32.3%) subjects were stage IIA1, and twenty-two (24.4%) subjects were stage IIA2. The median follow-up time was 61.05 months (range, 7.93-78.50 months) while thirteen (14.4%) subjects relapsed and seven (7.8%) subjects died.