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Thus, the current study aimed to determine the effect of the number of positive lymph nodes on disease-specific survival (DSS) and overall survival (OS) in cN0 mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) of the major salivary gland. Patients surgically treated for MEC of the major salivary gland between 1975 and 2019 were retrospectively enrolled from the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results database. The total population was randomly divided into training and test groups (1:1). Primary outcome variables were DSS and OS. Prognostic models were constructed based on the independent prognostic factors determined using univariate and multivariate Cox analyses in the training group and were validated in the test group using C-index. A total of 3317 patients (1624 men and 1693 women) with a mean age of 55\u2009\u00b1\u200920\u00a0years were included. 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