Table 7.
Analysis of the significance of MMP-9 expression for predicting biochemical recurrence.
| Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | P | |
| MMP-2, TM | 6.2222 | 0.6888 to 56.2057 | 0.1035 | 5.1721 | 0.4924 to 54.3318 | 0.1708 |
| MMP-9, TM | 8.7500 | 1.7411 to 43.9746 | 0.0078 | 10.2909 | 1.6284 to 65.0367 | 0.0132 |
| P = 0.0052 | ||||||
OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; and TM: tumor mass.