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

Table 5.

Overall and Disease-Free Survival using Kaplan-Meier and log-rank test but only in patients who received complete chemotherapy regimen (all of whom received gemcitabine)

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 20.3 (15, 25.5) 82 82 13.5 (9.3, 19.4) 62 62

Age Young (≤ 65.5) 22 (15.6, 47.2) 44 82 0.18 10.5 (8, 19.3) 38 62 0.48
Old (> 65.5) 17 (9.6, 25.5) 38 14 (8, ∞) 24

Size Small (≤ 2.0) 25 (9.6, 47.2) 18 82 0.45 20.5 (8.3, ∞) 12 62 0.21
Large (> 2.0) 17.7 (14.8, 25.5) 64 12 (8, 17.3) 50

Gender Female 22 (14.8, 34.5) 36 82 0.85 10 (6.5, 17.3) 31 62 0.12
Male 20 (14.4, 25.5) 46 19.3 (9.4, 46) 31

Race White 20 (14.8, 26.5) 59 82 0.88 13.5 (8, 25.5) 42 62 0.65
Non-White 22 (9.2, 26.2) 23 10.3 (5.5, 592) 20

Grade 1/2 20.5 (16, 25.5) 67 82 0.028 14 (10.3, 20.5) 51 62 0.0503
3/4 14.5 (6.5, 26.5) 15 9.4 (2, 25.5) 11

Lymph Nodes 0 25.5 (15, 48.5) 26 81 0.038 20.5 (13.5, ∞) 20 61 0.012
≥ 1 16 (13, 20.3) 55 9.4 (6.5, 14) 41

Tumor 1/2 20 (6.5, 47) 13 82 0.59 19.5 (5.5, ∞) 8 62 0.21
(TNM) 3/4 20.5 (15, 26) 69 12 (8, 19.3) 54

RRM1 Low 20.3 (15, 25.5) 55 81 0.87 13.5 (8, 20.5) 39 61 0.84
IHC Interp High 47.8 (8.7, 48) 26 16.6 (5.5, ∞) 22

RRM1 Low 24 (17, 26) 37 44 0.070 14 (9.4, 25.5) 26 32 0.62
PCR Interp High 48 (*, *) 7 17.3 (10.5, 17.3) 6

ERCC Low 20.3 (14.8, 26.5) 35 82 0.88 14 (9.4, 31.5) 25 62 0.36
IHC Interp High 17 (13.3, 26) 47 12 (6.5, 20.5) 37

ERCC Low 17 (14.5, 24.7) 39 68 0.23 10 (7, 25.5) 28 54 0.74
PCR Interp High 24 (11, 63.7) 29 13.5 (8, 20.5) 26

* The 95% confidence interval could not be estimated since only one event (death) was recorded.