As shown in Table 1, high expression of SATB1 was significantly associated with age (≥55 vs. <55, p = 0.034), primary tumor depth of invasion (T1 + T2 vs. T3 + T4, P<0.001), TNM stage (stages I + II vs. stages III + IV, P = 0.015), presence of lymph node metastasis (P = 0.013) and presence of distant metastasis (P = 0.012). Here, SATB1 is linked to metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes.