ARHGAP24 and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: Furthermore, univariate analysis identified that ARHGAP24 expression is negatively correlated with several prognostic factors: tumor extent (P<0.01), lymph node metastasis (P<0.05), distant metastasis (P<0.01) and Fuhrman grade (P<0.05) (Table 2).