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. 2012 Mar 22;12:104. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-104

Table 3.

Univariate Overall and Disease-Free Survival: Kaplan-Meier medians and log-rank test

Overall Survival Disease-Free Survival
Covariate Median [months] (95% CI) N Total N Log-rank p-value Median [months] (95% CI) N Total N Log-rank p-value

Overall 18 (14, 25) 94 94 12 (8, 19) 64 64

Age (year) Young (≤ 65.5) 20 (16, 47) 47 94 0.087 11 (8, 19) 38 64 0.71
Old (> 65.5) 15 (9, 24) 47 14 (7, 25) 26

Size (cm) Small (≤ 2.0) 25 (9, 47) 20 94 0.60 21 (8, ∞) 12 64 0.17
Large (> 2.0) 17 (13, 22) 74 11 (7, 17) 52

Gender Female 20 (12, 34) 41 94 0.89 10 (7, 17) 32 64 0.12
Male 18 (12, 25) 53 19 (9, 46) 32

Race White 17 (13, 26) 66 93 0.65 14 (8, 25) 43 64 0.59
NonWhite 22 (8, 26) 27 10 (6, 19) 21

Grade 1/2 20 (16, 26) 74 93 0.003 14 (10, 19) 52 64 0.031
3/4 7 (6, 14) 19 6 (2, 25) 12

Lymph Nodes 0 26 (22, 48) 27 92 0.009 21 (14, ∞) 20 63 0.008
≥ 1 15 (12, 20) 65 9 (7, 12) 43

Tumor size by 1/2 12 (6, 22) 15 93 0.45 19 (5, ∞) 9 64 0.31
TNM stage 3/4 18 (15, 26) 78 11 (8, 19) 55

Treatment Chemo 20 (15, 26) 82 94 <.001 14 (9, 19) 62 64 0.013
No chemo 6 (3, ∞) 12 5 2

RRM1 Low 20 (15, 25) 61 93 0.50 12 (8, 21) 40 63 0.76
IHC Interp. High 14 (8, 48) 32 17 (5, ∞) 23

RRM1 Low 24 (16, 26) 39 49 0.21 14 (8, 21) 28 34 0.48
PCR Interp. High 48 (3, 48) 10 17 (11, 17) 6

ERCC Low 20 (12, 25) 41 94 0.83 14 (8, 25) 26 64 0.39
IHC Interp. High 17 (12, 26) 53 12 (7, 19) 38

ERCC Low 16 (12, 25) 46 79 0.39 10 (7, 19) 29 56 0.74
PCR Interp. High 22 (9, 48) 33 14 (6, 21) 27

Abbreviations: ∞ = infinity; Interp. = Interpretation