TFE3 Regulates the Function of the Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway to Drive the Invasion and Metastasis of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Table 1

Correlation between TFE3 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of thyroid cancer patients ().

Clinical parameters	Number	TFE3 expression		value
		Low	High
Age (years)
<45	42	18	24
≥45	36	21	15
Gender
Male	22	11	11
Female	56	28	28
Clinical stage^a
I	67	35	32
	11	4	7
Tumor stage^a
	73	38	35
	5	1	4
Lymph node metastasis^a
N0	20	14	6
	58	25	33

was considered significant. Thyroid carcinoma. ^aAccording to the AJCC tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system (eighth edition), 2017.