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. 2012 Jan 12;106(4):702–710. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2011.610

Table 2. Relationships between clinic-pathological factors and cancer-specific survival, in patients selected for potentially curative resection for oesophageal adenocarcinoma (n=98).

  Univariate analysis
Multivariate analysis
  Hazard ratio (95% CI) P-value Hazard ratio (95% CI) P-value
Patient-related factors
 Age (<65/65–74/⩾75 years) 1.69 (1.11–2.59) 0.016 1.93 (1.23–3.04) 0.004
 Sex (male/female) 0.47 (0.17–1.31) 0.148    
 mGPS (0/1/2) 2.39 (1.36–4.18) 0.002 2.91 (1.51–5.62) 0.001
         
Tumour-related factors
 TNM stage (I/II/III) 2.27 (1.42–3.64) 0.001   0.345
 Tumour differentiation (well-mod/poor) 2.52 (1.43–4.44) 0.001   0.202
 Resection margin (R0/R1) 1.80 (0.99–3.29) 0.053   0.805
 Positive to total lymph node ratio (0/⩽0.2/>0.2) 2.47 (1.71–3.58) <0.001 2.38 (1.60–3.52) <0.001
 Neo-adjuvant therapy (no/yes) 1.39 (0.74–2.61) 0.304    
 Adjuvant therapy (no/yes) 1.74 (0.83–3.65) 0.141    
         
Klintrup–Makinen score (low/high grade) 0.35 (0.15–0.82) 0.016   0.076
Necrosis score (low/high grade) 1.12 (0.64–1.97) 0.695    
CD8 tertiles 0.69 (0.48–0.99) 0.048   0.697
CD68 tertiles 1.38 (0.99–1.94) 0.061 1.49 (1.02–2.18) 0.041
Ki67 tertiles 1.46 (1.01–2.12) 0.048   0.479
CD34 tertiles 0.94 (0.67–1.34) 0.736    

Abbreviations: CI=confidence interval; LNR=lymph node ratio; mGPS=modified Glasgow Prognostic score; TNM=tumour node metastasis.