As shown in Table 6, mTOR showed a trend of association with lymph node metastasis (OR = 1.72, 95%CI 0.98–3.01, P = 0.06) and late TNM stage (OR = 3.13, 95%CI 0.72–13.61, P = 0.13). This evidence concerns the gene MTOR and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes.