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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2016 May 16;22(22):5487–5496. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-0127

Table 2.

Cox regression analysis.

Variable Categories Combined discovery & confirmation cohorts (n=346) Validation cohort (n=166) All patients (n=512)
Hazard ratio
[95% CI]
Wald test P-value Hazard ratio
[95% CI]
Wald test P-value Hazard ratio
[95% CI]
Wald test P-value
Visceral involvement Unresectable stage III, distant lymph nodes/soft tissue, lung 1.0 <0.001 1.0 0.008 1.0 <0.001
Other visceral involvement 2.5[1.5;4.1] 3.5[1.4;8.9] 2.7[1.8;4.2]
LDH-ratio ≤2.5 1.0 <0.001 1.0 <0.001 1.0 <0.001
>2.5 2.5 [1.7;3.6] 6.1[3.1;12.3] 2.8 [2.0;3.9]
Relative lymphocyte count <17.5% 1.9 [1.3;2.8] <0.001 2.4 [1.4;4.4] 0.003 2.0 [1.5;2.8] <0.001
≥17.5% 1.0 1.0 1.0
Relative eosinophil count <1.5% 2.2 [1.5;3.1] <0.001 2.2 [1.2;3.9] 0.006 2.0 [1.5;2.8] <0.001
≥1.5% 1.0 1.0 1.0

LDH: lactate dehydrogenase; CI: confidence interval.