Table 2.

Logistic regression analysis for incidence of metastases within 5 mm of the hypothalamus

Variable	Point estimate	95% Wald confidence limits	p-value
Age (age > 64 years vs. <=64 years)	2.019	0.845–4.824	0.1140
Sex (female vs. male)	0.820	0.335–2.009	0.6644
Tumor type (NSCLC as reference)			0.7543
SCLC	1.916	0.638–5.749
Breast	1.427	0.327–6.219
Melanoma/renal/colorectal	1.348	0.341–5.337
Maximal diameter (> = 1.9 cm vs. <=1.8 cm)	2.146	0.899–5.125	0.0854
Number of brain metastases (> 10 vs. 1–3)	6.668	2.643–16.827	0.0002