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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2013 Oct 28;164(2):245–250. doi: 10.1111/bjh.12625

TABLE 2.

Impact of Unsuccessful Cytogenetic Analysis on complete remission, 4-week mortality and 5-year overall survival rates

UC Favorable Intermediate Unfavorable Very Unfavorable
p-
value
p-
value
p-
value
p-
value
Remission
CR Rate
(%)
43 80 <0.01 58 0.01 46 0.72 30 0.04
OR
(95% CI)
5.02
(2.68,9.4)
<0.01 1.60
(1.00,2.58)
0.05 0.93
(0.55,1.57)
0.79 0.57
(0.33,1.0)
0.05
Early Death
4-week
(%)
12 3 >0.3 8 >0.3 12 >0.3 21 0.07
OR
(95% CI)
0.41
(0.12,1.44)
0.17 0.80
(0.37,1.71)
0.56 1.26
(0.54,2.95)
0.59 2.20
(0.98,4.96)
0.06
Survival
5-year
(%)
16 55 <0.01 26 <0.01 14 0.79 2 <0.01
HR
(95% CI)
0.38
(0.27, 0.54)
<0.01 0.71
(0.55, 0.91)
0.01 1.20
(0.91, 1.57)
0.19 2.14
(1.62, 2.84)
<0.01

Abbreviations: UC- Unsuccessful cytogenetics, CR- complete remission; OR- Odds Ratio, CI- Confidence Interval, HR- Hazard Ratio.