As shown in Table 1, upregulation of AEBP1 was positively correlated with T stage (P = 0.005), N stage (P = 0.005) and TNM stage (P = 0.004), but not with sex (P = 0.504), age (P = 0.453), tumor location (P = 0.603) or histological grade (P = 0.950). Here, AEBP1 is linked to neoplasm.