Table III.

Univariate and multivariate analyses of the survival rate of patients with gastric cancer.

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
Independent prognostic factor	Hazard ratio	95% CI	P-value	Hazard ratio	95% CI	P-value
Depth of tumor invasion
pT1-T3/pT4	4.59	2.37–8.87	<0.0001	2.44	1.24–4.82	0.0100
Lymph node metastasis
Negative/Positive	12.77	4.58–53.10	<0.0001	8.80	3.04–37.27	<0.0001
CFS-NLR
Group 0–1/2	2.94	1.51–5.67	0.0018	1.87	0.95–3.64	0.0695

CI, confidence interval; pT1, invasion of lamina propria or submucosa; pT3, invasion of subserosa; pT4, penetration of serosa or invasion of adjacent structures; CFS-NLR, combined fibrinogen concentration and the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio.