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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2015 Dec 28;122(6):935–945. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29848

Table 3.

Univariate analysis of metastatic sites as predictors of MYCN status in patients with stage 4 neuroblastoma.1

Metastatic site1 Sample size
(N)2
Percent with
metastatic site
(%)
MYCN-Non amplified
(%)3
MYCN-amplified
(%)3
P-value4
Odds Ratio5

Bone marrow 2171 0.002 1.4
    Yes 72.1 68.1 31.9
    No 27.9 74.9 25.1

Bone 2164 0.006 1.3
    Yes 58.8 67.9 32.2
    No 41.2 73.3 26.7

Distant lymph node 2165 0.76 1.0
    Yes 33.9 70.4 29.6
    No 66.1 69.8 30.2

Liver 2172 0.74 1.0
    Yes 18.1 69.4 30.6
    No 81.9 70.2 29.8

Skin 1958 0.01 0.4
    Yes 3.3 84.6 15.4
    No 96.7 70.1 29.9

Lung 1923 <0.001 3.0
    Yes 4.1 46.2 53.9
    No 95.9 71.7 28.3

Central Nervous System 1923 0.6 1.2
    Yes 2.6 67.4 32.7
    No 97.4 70.8 29.2

Other 2128 <0.001 1.5
    Yes 27.8 64.2 35.8
    No 72.2 72.5 27.5
1

At least one known metastatic site specified in the INRG database.

2

N represents total with known data for the given variable.

3

Row percentages sum to 100%.

4

p-value refers to a chi-squared test.

5

Odds ratio for univariate logistic regression with MYCN amplification as dependent variable.