Table 2.

Contribution of various potential prognostic factors to survival by Cox regression analysis on 55 NPC samples

	Hazard ratio	P	95.0% Confidence interval
Age	0.051	0.821	0.363-3.587
Gender	0.896	0.344	0.178-1.826
Lymph node metastasis	0.892	0.345	0.447-10.010
Clinical stages	6.522	0.011*	1.292-7.020
FGFR4 expression	5.169	0.023*	1.234-17.022
Ki-67	4.473	0.034*	1.105-12.935

Statistical analyses were performed by the Cox regression analysis. * P <0.05 was considered significant.