In addition, the expression of B4GALT1 was not associated with patients’ age or gender and not with other confirmed prognosis factors, such as tumor size, pT stage, lymphovascular invasion (LVI) or Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) in both the training cohort and validation cohort (all P > 0.05 showed in Table 1). This evidence concerns the gene B4GALT1 and neoplasm.