Table 2.

Cox regression analysis of melanoma specific mortality for metastatic melanoma archival tissue samples

Clinicopathological factors	Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
	HR (95% CI)	P-value	HR (95% CI)	P-value
Age at diagnosis (yr)	1.03 (1.00–1.07)	0.053	1.03 (1.01–1.06)	0.01
Gender
Female	1
Male	1.27 (0.55–2.94)	0.579
Site of metastatic melanoma
Lymph node	1		1
Other sitesa	1.95 (0.86–4.41)	0.108	2.29 (1.10–4.75)	0.026
p63 status
Negative	1		1	0.014
Positive	3.27 (1.08–9.87)	0.035	3.86 (1.31–11.39)

P-values are from Cox proportional HR.

^aSkin, lung, parotid, and brain.