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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2015 Jun 15;21(12):2861–2869. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-14-3323

Table 2.

Cox proportional hazards regression for association of pretreatment antibody status with overall and progression-free survival among 209 patients with OPC, 130 patients with ≤10 pack-years of smoking, and 96 patients with tumor HPV-positive OPC.


All patients
N=209
Patients with ≤10 pack years
N=130
Tumor HPV-positive patients
N=96
Crude HR
(95% CI)
Adjusted HR
(95% CI)
Crude HR
(95% CI)
Adjusted HR
(95% CI)
Crude HR
(95% CI)
Adjusted HR
(95% CI)


Overall survivala
E1+ vs. E1 − 0.3 (0.1–0.5) 0.3 (0.2–0.5) 0.5 (0.2–1.3) 0.5 (0.2–1.4) 0.2 (0.1–0.6) 0.3 (0.1–0.7)
NE2+ vs. NE2− 0.2 (0.1–0.3) 0.2 (0.1–0.4) 0.3 (0.1–1.2) 0.5 (0.1–1.8) 0.1 (0.1–0.3) 0.2 (0.1–0.6)
CE2+ vs. CE2− 0.4 (0.2–0.8) 0.5 (0.2–1.0) 0.8 (0.3–2.1) 0.8 (0.3–2.1) 0.5 (0.2–1.4) 0.6 (0.2–1.6)
E4+ vs. E4− 0.5 (0.2–1.2) 0.4 (0.2–1.0) 0.2 (0–1.4) 0.2 (0–1.6) 0.2 (0–1.6) 0.3 (0–2.2)
E5+ vs. E5− NC NC NC NC NC NC
E6+ vs. E6− 0.2 (0.1–0.4) 0.3 (0.2–0.6) 0.3 (0.1–0.8) 0.5 (0.2–1.3) 0.3 (0.1–0.7) 0.3 (0.1–0.9)
E7+ vs. E7− 0.5 (0.3–1.0) 0.7 (0.3–1.3) 1.3 (0.4–3.9) 1.2 (0.4–3.8) 0.6 (0.2–1.5) 0.9 (0.3–2.6)
Any E+ vs. all − 0.2 (0.1–0.3) 0.2 (0.1–0.4) 0.1 (0–0.8) 0.1 (0–0.7) 0.1 (0.1–0.4) 0.3 (0.1–0.9)
Progression-free survivalb
E1+ vs. E1 − 0.3 (0.2–0.6) 0.4 (0.2–0.7) 0.7 (0.3–1.8) 0.7 (0.3–1.9) 0.3 (0.10–0.7) 0.3 (0.1–0.7)
NE2+ vs. NE2− 0.2 (0.1–0.4) 0.3 (0.1–0.5) 0.5 (0.1–1.6) 0.5 (0.1–1.8) 0.1 (0.05–0.3) 0.2 (0.1–0.6)
CE2+ vs. CE2− 0.5 (0.3–0.9) 0.5 (0.3–1.0) 1.0 (0.4–2.4) 1.1 (0.4–2.6) 0.5 (0.19–1.3) 0.5 (0.2–1.4)
E4+ vs. E4− 0.5 (0.2–1.2) 0.4 (0.2–1.0) 0.3 (0.1–1.4) 0.3 (0.1–1.4) 0.4 (0.09–1.8) 0.5 (0.1–2.3)
E5+ vs. E5− NC NC NC NC NC NC
E6+ vs. E6− 0.3 (0.2–0.5) 0.4 (0.2–0.7) 0.4 (0.2–1.0) 0.5 (0.2–1.5) 0.3 (0.11–0.7) 0.3 (0.1–0.9)
E7+ vs. E7− 0.6 (0.3–1.0) 0.6 (0.4–1.2) 1.3 (0.5–3.7) 1.8 (0.6–5.4) 0.5 (0.19–1.2) 0.7 (0.3–1.9)
Any E+ vs. all- 0.2 (0.1–0.4) 0.2 (0.1–0.5) 0.2 (0–1.3) 0.1 (0–1.0) 0.1 (0.05–0.4) 0.3 (0.1–0.8)
a

All patients: adjusted for age, smoking, and treatment; Patients with ≤10 pack-years: adjusted for age and treatment; HPV-positive patients: Adjusted for age, smoking, and T category.

b

All patients: adjusted for age, smoking, and treatment; Patients with ≤10 pack-years: adjusted for age, N category, and treatment; HPV-positive patients: Adjusted for age, smoking, and T category.

NC: not calculable due to zero cells.