. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Head Neck. 2016 Apr 4;38(9):1310–1317. doi: 10.1002/hed.24435

TABLE 3.

Prognostic Factors Multivariate Analysis

	Overall Survival	Disease-Specific Survival	Local Recurrence-Free Survival	Distant recurrence-Free Survival
Age >68 years	–	–	5.24^*	–
Subsite (nasal)	3.41^*	3.45^*	–	–
MMHN T classification	0.43^*	0.43^*	–	0.43^*
Radiotherapy	–	–	2.81^*	–
Post-radiotherapy PET SUV>4	0.24^*	0.21^*	0.17^*	0.46

P<0.05 for reported hazard ratios

Hazard ratio >1 indicated improved survival with factor.

Abbreviations: MMHN, mucosal melanoma of the head and neck; PET, positron emission tomography; SUV, standardized uptake value