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. 2018 Sep 21;7(10):5015–5026. doi: 10.1002/cam4.1776

Table 2.

Univariate and multivariate analyses of OS and CSS for different variables of NSCLC before PSM

Characteristicb Univariate Multivariate
OS CSS OS CSS
HR (95% CI)a P a HR (95%CI)a P a HR (95%CI)a P a HR (95%CI)a P a
Age (<66 as ref.) 1.3 (1.3‐1.31) <0.001 1.3 (1.2‐1.3) <0.001 1.2 (1.1‐1.2) <0.001 1.1 (1.1‐1.2) <0.001
Gender (Female as ref.) 1.2 (1.2‐1.3) <0.001 1.2 (1.2‐1.2) <0.001 1.2 (1.2‐1.2) <0.001 1.2 (1.2‐1.2) <0.001
Race (White as ref.)
Black 1.0 (1.0‐1.0) 0.874 1.0 (0.9‐1.0) 0.876 1.0 (0.9‐1.0) 0.019 1.0 (0.9‐1.0) <0.001
Other 0.72 (0.70‐0.75) <0.001 0.72 (0.69‐0.75) <0.001 0.73 (0.70‐0.76) <0.001 0.72 (0.69‐0.75) <0.001
Marital (Married as ref.) 1.2 (1.2‐1.2) <0.001 1.2 (1.1‐1.2) <0.001 1.1 (1.1‐1.1) <0.001 1.1 (1.1‐1.1) <0.001
Histology (AD as ref.)
SQC 1.3 (1.2‐1.3) <0.001 1.3 (1.2‐1.3) <0.001 1.1 (1.1‐1.2) <0.001 1.1 (1.1‐1.2) <0.001
Other 1.1 (1.0‐1.1) 0.006 1.1 (1.0‐1.1) <0.001 1.0 (0.9‐1.1) 0.994 1.0 (0.9‐1.1) 0.725
LCC 1.4 (1.3‐1.5) <0.001 1.4 (1.3‐1.5) <0.001 1.3 (1.2‐1.4) <0.001 1.3 (1.2‐1.4) <0.001
Unspecified 1.4 (1.4‐1.4) <0.001 1.4 (1.4‐1.4) <0.001 1.2 (1.2‐1.2) <0.001 1.2 (1.2‐1.2) <0.001
Grade (1 as ref.)
2 1.3 (1.2‐1.4) <0.001 1.3 (1.2‐1.4) <0.001 1.3 (1.2‐1.4) <0.001 1.3 (1.2‐1.4) <0.001
3 1.7 (1.5‐1.8) <0.001 1.7 (1.6‐1.8) <0.001 1.6 (1.5‐1.7) <0.001 1.6 (1.5‐1.7) <0.001
4 1.9 (1.7‐2.1) <0.001 2.0 (1.8‐2.2) <0.001 1.7 (1.5‐1.9) <0.001 1.8 (1.6‐2.0) <0.001
Unknown 1.6 (1.5‐1.8) <0.001 1.7 (1.5‐1.8) <0.001 1.5 (1.4‐1.6) <0.001 1.5 (1.4‐1.7) <0.001
Number of distant metastasis (0 as ref.)b
1 1.1 (1.0‐1.1) <0.001 1.1 (1.1‐1.1) <0.001 1.1 (1.1‐1.1) <0.001 1.2 (1.1‐1.2) <0.001
2 1.3 (1.3‐1.4) <0.001 1.4 (1.3‐1.4) <0.001 1.5 (1.5‐1.6) <0.001 1.6 (1.5‐1.6) <0.001
3 1.6 (1.5‐1.6) <0.001 1.6 (1.6‐1.7) <0.001 1.9 (1.8‐1.9) <0.001 1.9 (1.9‐2.0) <0.001
4 1.5 (1.4‐1.7) <0.001 1.6 (1.5‐1.8) <0.001 1.8 (1.7‐2.1) <0.001 2.0 (1.8‐2.2) <0.001
Chemotherapy (No as ref.) 0.42 (0.41‐0.43) <0.001 0.43 (0.42‐0.44) <0.001 0.42 (0.41‐0.43) <0.001 0.43 (0.42‐0.44) <0.001
Surgery (No as ref.) 0.45 (0.42‐0.48) <0.001 0.44 (0.41‐0.47) <0.001 0.49 (0.45‐0.52) <0.001 0.48 (0.45‐0.51) <0.001
Radiotherapy (No as ref.) 0.87 (0.85‐0.89) <0.001 0.89 (0.87‐0.91) <0.001 0.89 (0.87‐0.90) <0.001 0.90 (0.88‐0.92) <0.001

n, number of cases/controls; OS, overall survival; CSS, cancer‐specific survival; PSM, propensity score matching; RT, radiotherapy; AD, adenocarcinoma; SQC, squamous cell carcinoma; Other, other specified carcinoma; LCC, large cell carcinoma; Unspecified, unspecified malignant neoplasm; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval.

a

Derived from COX regression analysis.

All the variables selected in this table were included in the multivariate analysis.

b

Number of distant metastasis included four sites of distant metastasis at diagnose SEER provided: bone, brain, liver, and lung.