Table II.

Results of univariate and multivariate analyses for the association between clinicopathological characteristics and survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell cancer.

	Disease-free survival			Overall survival
		Multivariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
Clinicopathological characteristic	Univariate analysis P-value	P-value	95.0% CI	Univariate analysis P-value	P-value	95.0% CI
Age	0.598	0.352	0.516–1.516	0.809	0.539	0.534–1.534
Gender	0.802	0.761	0.636–1.636	0.847	0.783	0.518–1.518
Tumor length	0.665	0.947	0.614–1.614	0.617	0.935	0.621–1.621
Tumor differentiation	0.095	0.512	0.803–1.803	0.280	0.812	0.741–1.741
Tumor invasion depth	0.033	0.512	0.785–1.785	0.009	0.361	0.815–1.815
Lymph node metastasis stage	<0.001	0.031	1.035–2.035	<0.001	0.020	1.070–2.070
Pathological tumor stage	<0.001	0.742	0.552–2.552	<0.001	0.582	0.582–2.582
miR-1469 expression	0.004	0.322	0.488–1.488	0.029	0.977	0.595–1.595

CI, confidence interval.