Table 2.
Results of univariate (log-rank) and multivariate (Cox) analyses (significant factors in bold) for overall survival.
| UNIVARIATE | MULTIVARIATE |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR | Lower 95% | Upper 95% | p | ||
| Neutrophilia (vs. absence) | 0.019 | 1.57 | 1.10 | 2.23 | 0.013 |
| Age ≥ 65y (vs. <65y) | 0.009 | 1.92 | 1.29 | 2.87 | 0.001 |
| Female gender (vs. Male gender) | 0.102 | – | – | – | 0.053 |
| WHO Grade IV (vs. Grade III) | 0.062 | – | – | – | 0.160 |
| PS = 0 (vs. PS ≥ 1) | 0.066 | – | – | – | 0.498 |
| Resection > 90% (vs. <90% or biopsy) | 0.003 | 0.60 | 0.41 | 0.88 | 0.010 |
| Prednisolone ≥ 60 mg/d (vs. <60 mg/d) | 0.016 | – | – | – | 0.088 |
Neutrophilia: neutrophil count ≥ 7 G/L; PS: Performance status; WHO: World Health Organization.