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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 4.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 May 4;31(5):1006–1016. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-1334

Table 4.

Adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association of immune cell abundance clustering approaches with risk of all-cause mortality overall and by race

Overall
Non-Hispanic Black
Non-Hispanic White
Clustering approaches Cases (Deaths) HR (95% CI)a Cases (Deaths) HR (95% CI)a Cases (Deaths) HR (95% CI)a

Immune signatures
 Signature 1 22 (19) 1.00 (Referent) 13 (11) 1.00 (Referent) 9 (8) 1.00 (Referent)
 Signature 2 30 (24) 1.05 (0.57, 1.92) 15 (12) 1.00 (0.44, 2.32) 15 (12) 1.19 (0.48, 2.93)
 Signature 3 69 (54) 1.09 (0.64, 1.86) 37 (28) 1.26 (0.62, 2.57) 32 (26) 0.87 (0.38, 1.99)
 Signature 4 82 (55) 0.69 (0.40, 1.17) 32 (19) 0.89 (0.42, 1.92) 50 (36) 0.52 (0.24, 1.15)
 Signature 5 35 (20) 0.49 (0.26, 0.92) 22 (11) 0.64 (0.28, 1.51) 13 (9) 0.34 (0.13, 0.90)
Immunoscore
 Low 62 (46) 1.00 (Referent) 33 (25) 1.00 (Referent) 29 (21) 1.00 (Referent)
 Intermediate 126 (98) 1.06 (0.75, 1.51) 62 (43) 1.14 (0.69, 1.89) 64 (55) 0.95 (0.57, 1.60)
 High 50 (28) 0.56 (0.35, 0.90) 24 (13) 0.68 (0.35, 1.33) 26 (15) 0.45 (0.23, 0.91)

ROI: region of interest, HR: hazard ratio, CI: confidence interval, CD: cell differentiation.

a

Models are adjusted for age at diagnosis (years) and stage (localized, regional, distant). The models in the overall study population are additionally adjusted for race (Non-Hispanic Black, Non-Hispanic White).