Table 5.

Multivariate analysis for the factors affected to the cumulative incidence of causes of death or recurrences

Factors	Non-cancer deaths			Other cancers			Gastric cancer recurrence
	HR	95%CI	P value	HR	95%CI	P value	HR	95%CI	P value
Age	1.101	1.064-1.140	< 0.0001	1.064	1.026-1.103	0.0008	0.992	0.894-1.101	0.88
Sex	1.533	0.823-2.855	0.18	2.126	0.863-5.239	0.1	3.213	0.592-17.43	0.18
Location	1.259	0.890-1.782	0.19	0.9636	0.637-1.457	0.86	1.472	0.482-4.502	0.5
Circumference	1.037	0.798-1.349	0.78	1.184	0.875-1.602	0.27	1.943	0.732-5.158	0.18
Macroscopic type	1.303	0.752-2.256	0.35	2.322	1.241-4.346	0.0084	1.083	0.136-8.636	0.94
Clinical T status	0.9053	0.584-1.403	0.66	0.8587	0.481-1.535	0.61	1.542	0.662-3.595	0.32
Pathological type	1.509	0.762-2.990	0.24	0.5908	0.211-1.657	0.32	1.27	0.165-9.786	0.82
Long axis	0.9802	0.958-1.003	0.086	0.9874	0.958-1.017	0.4	0.9468	0.867-1.034	0.22
Pathological N status	1.263	0.683-2.337	0.46	1.353	0.751-2.440	0.31	5.252	2.043-13.50	0.00058
SNNS	0.4438	0.230-0.855	0.015	0.7224	0.338-1.542	0.4	0.1859	0.030-1.166	0.072

SNNS: Sentinel node navigation surgery; HR: Hazard ratio; CI: Confidence interval.