OGT and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: Patients with a higher pStage (stages III and IV), more lymph node metastasis (>5) and a higher N stage (N 2 and N 3) had significantly higher OGT expression than those with a low pStage (stages I and II), less lymph node metastasis (≤5) and a lower N stage (N 0 and N 1) (Table 1).