TERT and neoplasm: No significant group difference between tumor tissue and non-tumor tissue with regard to age, smoking status, tumor histological subtype, grading, and T stage could be observed for TERT, whereas MYC showed statistically significant differences between males and females (p = 0.0217) and regarding grading, i.e., G1 + G2 vs. G3 (p = 0.0399) (Table 2).