Table 5. The predictive values of the adopted factors with pTNM stage for OS and RFS by ROC analysis.
Variables | OS | RFS | ||||
Area | 95%CI | P | Area | 95%CI | P | |
Vascular invasion | 0.700 | 0.631 to 0.770 | 0.000 | 0.670 | 0.599 to 0.742 | 0.000 |
Combination of intratumoral iNKT cells and IFN-γ | 0.654 | 0.582 to 0.725 | 0.000 | 0.633 | 0.561 to 0.706 | 0.001 |
Tumor encapsulation | NA | 0.616 | 0.542 to 0.689 | 0.003 | ||
Tumor size | 0.620 | 0.547 to 0.694 | 0.002 | NA | ||
Tumor number | NA | 0.554 | 0.478 to 0.629 | 0.165 | ||
Liver cirrhosis | 0.555 | 0.480 to 0.630 | 0.156 | NA | ||
Tumor differentiation | 0.597 | 0.523 to 0.671 | 0.012 | NA | ||
pTNM stage | 0.672 | 0.600 to 0.743 | 0.000 | 0.643 | 0.571 to 0.715 | 0.000 |
intratumoral iNKT cells | 0.618 | 0.544 to 0.691 | 0.002 | 0.591 | 0.517 to 0.666 | 0.018 |
Intratumoral IFN-γ | 0.608 | 0.534 to 0.682 | 0.005 | 0.604 | 0.530 to 0.678 | 0.007 |
Abbreviations: OS, overall survival; RFS, recurrence-free survival; NA, not adopted; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis; iNKT cells, invariant natural killer T cells; IFN-γ, interferon gamma.