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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dis Colon Rectum. 2013 Dec;56(12):10.1097/DCR.0b013e3182a857eb. doi: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e3182a857eb

Table 3.

Overall Survival in Patients who Received Postoperative Chemotherapy (Cox Regression Analysis).

P – value OR 95% CI
Timing of Chemotherapy* 0.001 3.123 1.605 – 6.078

Preoperative Chemotherapy 0.137 1.875 0.819 – 4.292

Margin Status 0.006 3.736 1.454 – 9.599

Pathologic Stage
1 0.004 0.137 0.035 – 0.539
2 0.845 0.894 0.290 – 2.751
3 0.683 0.833 0.347 – 2.001
4 0.103 3.800 0.763 – 18.922

Comorbidity+ 0.031 2.117 1.069 – 4.195

Postoperative Complication 0.009 2.514 1.255 – 5.035
*

Chemotherapy ≥ 8 weeks postoperatively as compared with < 8 weeks

+

Presence of any of the comorbid conditions listed in Table 2.