As shown in Table 3, the results from multivariate Cox analysis showed that TRIM44 expression (HR = 5.921, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.327–26.432, P=0.02 for OS; HR = 6.552, 95% CI = 1.881–22.82, P=0.003 for DFS), histological type (HR = 3.891, 95% CI = 1.393–10.865, P=0.01 for OS; HR = 5.412, 95% CI = 2.223–13.173, P<0.001 for DFS), and lymph node metastasis (HR = 3.108, 95% CI = 1.294–7.464, P=0.011 for OS; HR = 2.626, 95% CI = 1.187–5.807, P=0.017 for DFS) (Table 3). Here, TRIM44 is linked to metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes.