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. 2018 Jul 26;13(7):e0200936. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200936

Table 5. Prognostic factors for disease-specific survival and disease-free survival in a subgroup of 448 patients with luminal type breast cancer.

Variables Disease-specific survival Disease-free survival
Univariate analysisa
(P value)
Multivariate analysisb Univariate analysisa
(P value)
Multivariate analysisb
Hazard ratio (95% CI) Relative risk P value Hazard ratio (95% CI) Relative risk P value
Nuclear grade 0.616 0.264
HER2 positive 0.156 0.248
Multiplicity 0.578 0.053 0.313–3.782 1.088 0.895
Histologic grade (reference 1) 0.169 0.009 0.331
    2 0.309–1.811 0.747 0.519
    3 0.535–3.759 1.418 0.483
Age (>50 years) 0.015 1.028–4.019 2.032 0.042 0.045 0.961–3.830 1.919 0.065
Perineural invasion 0.118 0.381
Lymphovascular invasion <0.001 0.663–3.382 1.497 0.331 0.001 0.604–3.179 1.386 0.441
T stage (reference 1) <0.001 0.003 <0.001 0.003
    2 0.544–2.684 1.208 0.643 0.550–2.783 1.237 0.607
    3 0.991–7.111 2.655 0.052 1.087–8.256 2.996 0.034
    4 5.018–482.445 49.203 0.001 4.781–488.357 48.320 0.607
Lymph node metastasis <0.001 1.257–7.667 3.104 0.014 0.001 1.244–7.624 3.080 0.015
Distant metastasis (M1) <0.001 1.509–16.715 5.021 0.009 <0.001 1.603–17.433 5.286 0.006
NLR>1.34 0.048 0.591–3.776 1.493 0.397 0.044 0.550–3.525 1.392 0.485
dNLR>1.34 0.130 0.102
PLR.>185.5 <0.001 1.905–8.562 4.039 <0.001 <0.001 2.108–10.497 4.704 <0.001
LMR≤3.11 0.004 0.165–1.308 0.465 0.147 0.091 0.177–1.574 0.527 0.251

NLR, neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio; dNLR, derived neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio; PLR, platelet-lymphocyte ratio; LMR, lymphocyte-monocyte ratio.

aPerformed using the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis model and log-rank test; values of P<0.10 in the univariate analysis were included in a multivariate analysis.

bPerformed using the Cox proportional hazards model.