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. 2016 Jun 30;7(11):1396–1405. doi: 10.7150/jca.15339

Table 3.

Univariate log-rank and multivariate analyses for Disease-specific and Metastasis-free Survivals in upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma.

Parameter Category Case No. Disease-specific Survival Metastasis-free Survival
Univariate analysis Multivariate analysis Univariate analysis Multivariate analysis
No. of event p-value R.R. 95% C.I. p-value No. of event p-value R.R. 95% C.I. p-value
Gender Male 158 28 0.8286 - - - 32 0.7904 - - -
Female 182 33 - - - 38 - - -
Age (years) < 65 138 26 0.9943 - - - 30 0.8470 - - -
≥ 65 202 35 - - - 40 - - -
Tumor side Right 177 34 0.7366 - - - 38 0.3074 - - -
Left 154 26 - - - 32 - - -
Bilateral 9 1 - - - 0 - - -
Tumor location Renal pelvis 141 24 0.0079* 1 - 0.997 31 0.0659 - - -
Ureter 150 22 0.859 0.462-1.598 25 - - -
Renal pelvis & ureter 49 15 1.334 0.370-4.805 14 - - -
Multifocality Single 273 48 0.0026* 1 - 0.005* 52 0.0127* 1 - <0.001*
Multifocal 62 18 3.026 1.400-6.540 18 2.517 1.453-4.360
Primary tumor (T) Ta 89 2 <0.0001* 1 - 0.015* 4 <0.0001* 1 - 0.180
T1 92 9 5.281 0.834-33.444 15 2.807 0.865-9.110
T2-T4 159 50 7.405 1.286-42.636 51 2.657 0.823-8.582
Nodal metastasis Negative (N0) 312 42 <0.0001* 1 - <0.001* 55 <0.0001* 1 - <0.001*
Positive (N1-N3) 28 19 5.707 3.085-10.558 15 3.135 1.698-5.788
Histological grade Low grade 56 4 0.0215* 1 - 0.029* 3 0.0027* 1 - 0.020*
High grade 284 57 3.507 1.137-10.814 67 4.259 1.251-14.496
Vascular invasion Absent 234 24 <0.0001* 1 - 0.160 26 <0.0001* 1 - 0.003*
Present 106 37 1.531 0.845-2.774 44 2.459 1.347-4.487
Perineural invasion Absent 321 50 <0.0001* 1 - <0.001* 61 <0.0001* 1 - 0.009*
Present 19 11 4.045 1.931-8.476 9 2.712 1.289-5.708
Mitotic rate (per 10 high power fields) < 10 173 27 0.167 - - 30 0.0823 - -
>= 10 167 34 - - 40 - -
C1s expression Low 170 8 <0.0001* 1 - <0.001* 18 <0.0001* 1 - 0.006*
High 170 53 1.755 1.385-2.225 52 1.482 1.117-1.967

* Statistically significant