Table III.

Binary logistic regression analysis: The associations between clinical factors and recurrence or metastasis in esophageal carcinoma.

	Recurrence or metastasis
Characteristic	OR	95% CI	P-value
Age (≥60 vs. <60)	0.862	0.425–1.747	0.680
Gender (female vs. male)	1.432	0.609–3.371	0.411
Position (upper vs. middle vs. lower)	1.456	0.670–3.164	0.343
Differentiation (high vs. moderate vs. poor)	1.964	1.099–3.508	0.023a
TNM (I vs. II vs. III)	3.206	1.763–5.830	<0.001a
P53 expression (low vs. high)	2.510	1.228–5.131	0.012a
Cox-2 expression (low vs. high)	1.583	0.740–3.383	0.236
P53(+) Cox-2(+) vs. other groups	2.204	1.124–4.322	0.021a

^aP<0.05. OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.