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. 2016 Feb 4;114(4):444–453. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2015.450

Table 3. Determination of the HRs for death from melanomaa using the Cox proportional hazards model: (A) patient outcome and (B) P-values and HRs.

(A) Patient outcomes
Histopathologic subtype Dead Alive Total
Superficial spreading melanoma 7 27 34
Nodular melanoma 12 2 14
Acral lentiginous melanoma 2 4 6
Lentigo maligna melanoma 3 8 11
Mucosal lentiginous melanoma 2 1 3
Metastatic melanoma 14 6 20
(B) P-values and HRs
Histopathologic subtype Nodular and metastatic melanomas P-value HR Superficial spreading and lentiginous melanomas P-value HR All melanomas P-value HR All melanomas P-value HR All melanomas P-value HR
Age 0.5222 0.99 0.0044 1.07 0.0319 1.03 0.0785 1.02    
eIF4E cytoplasmic histoscore 0.0616 2.22 0.4936 1.45 0.0342 2.01 0.0257 2.09 0.0323 2.03
eIF4E nuclear histoscore 0.8542 0.92 0.6083 1.36 0.6714 1.16 0.9856 1.01 0.836 0.93
p4E cytoplasmic histoscore 0.0052 3.66 0.8992 1.13 0.0031 2.78 0.0217 2.24 0.0555 2.01
p4E nuclear histoscore 0.0134 2.93 0.2533 2.00 0.0049 2.56 0.0132 2.31 0.0307 2.11
Adjusted Age   Age   Age   Lesion subtype   Age, lesion subtype  

Abbreviations: eIF4E=Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E; p4E=phosphorylated eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E; HR=hazard ratio.

a

Adjusted for age and lesion histopathologic subtype.