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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 16.
Published in final edited form as: Leukemia. 2018 Mar 21;32(6):1414–1420. doi: 10.1038/s41375-018-0099-8

Table 2.

Multivariate analysis of factors affecting survival in plasmacytoma (P- EM: Extramedullary plasmacytoma; P-Bone: Bone plasmacytoma).

Variable No. (%) HR (95% CI)
Age (years)
<65 2814 (55.7%) Referent
≥65 2242 (44.3%) 3.46 (3.14–3.81)
Location
P-EM 1528 (30.2%) Referent
P-Bone 3528 (69.8%) 1.48 (1.33–1.65)
Treatment
Neither Surgery nor Radiation 508 (10.0%) Referent
Both Surgery and Radiation 1414 (28.0%) 0.41 (0.35–0.48)
Only Radiation 2491 (49.3%) 0.53 (0.46–0.60)
Only Surgery 643 (12.7%) 0.58 (0.48–0.69)
Model for Patients With Any Radiation (N=2816)
Radiation dose (Gy)
<40 703 (25.0%) Referent
≥40 2113 (75.0%) 0.62 (0.54–0.72)
Age (years)
<65 1635 (58.1%) Referent
≥65 1181 (41.9%) 3.17 (2.74–3.66)
Location
P-EM 768 (27.3%) Referent
P-Bone 2048 (72.7%) 1.47 (1.24–1.73)
Treatment
Only Radiation 1803 (64.0%) Referent
Both Surgery and Radiation 1013 (36.0%) 0.83 (0.71–0.96)
Model for P-Bone Primary Site (N=2048)
Radiation dose (Gy)
<40 572 (27.9%) Referent
≥40 1476 (72.1%) .66 (0.56–0.77)
Age (years)
<65 1183 (57.8%) Referent
≥65 865 (42.2%) 3.38 (2.87–3.98)
Model for P-EM Primary Site (N=768)
Radiation dose (Gy)
<40 131 (17.1%) Referent
≥40 637 (82.9%) 0.49 (0.35–0.67)
Age (years)
<65 452 (58.9%) Referent
≥65 316 (41.1%) 2.79 (2.06–3.78)