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. 2019 Feb 12;120(5):522–526. doi: 10.1038/s41416-019-0399-4

Table 2.

Association of clinical and pathologic factors with HER2 status: univariate and multivariate analyses

Development cohort
Univariate Multivariate
OR (95%CI) P-value OR (95%CI) P-value
Gender
  Female 1
  Male 0.60 (0.34–1.06) 0.076
Type of material
  Surgical sample 1 1
  <6 biopsies 1.71 (0.96–3.05) 0.063 1.93 (0.91–4.11) 0.069
  ≥6 biopsies 2.47 (0.97–6.32) 0.058 2.29 (0.64–8.22) 0.201
Site of sampling
  Primary tumour 1 1
  Metastases 1.80 (1.03–4.15) 0.042 4.12 (1.11–15.2) 0.034
Tumour location
  Body 1
  O–G junction 1.88 (1.08–3.26) 0.023
  Fundus 1.01 (0.28–3.59) 0.658
Histotype
  Intestinal 1 1
  Diffuse 0.23 (0.12–0.44) <0.0001 0.41 (0.17–0.98) 0.045
Tumour grading
  G1 versus G2 versus G3 0.05 (0.02–0.16) <0.0001 0.09 (0.02–0.41) 0.0018

OR (95%CI) odds ratio (95% confidence interval), O–G junction oesophago-gastric junction