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. 2013 Aug 5;8(8):e70345. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070345

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.