SCD and renal cell carcinoma: As summarized in Table 3, the expression of SCD1 in cancerous tissues was significantly related to age (p = 0.030), TNM stage (p = 0.021), pN stage (p = 0.014), Fuhrman grade (p = 0.014) and tumor sizes (p = 0.040) for patients with RCC, whereas it was not associated with patients’ gender, pT stage, pM stage (p>0.05).