Table 3.
Independent risk factors for tumor recurrence and cancer-specific death in intestinal and diffuse-type gastric cancer
| Dependent variable | Factor | P value | HR |
95%CI for HR
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| Intestinal type GC | |||||
| Tumor death (OS) | LNR | 0.004 | 32.424 | 3.057 | 343.96 |
| Growth | 0.052 | ||||
| Expansive | |||||
| Infiltrative | 4.678 | 0.987 | 22.177 | ||
| Recurrence (DFS) | LNR | 0.03 | 3.758 | 1.138 | 12.411 |
| Vascular invasion | 0.005 | 2.829 | 1.379 | 5.806 | |
| T stage | 0.056 | ||||
| T1-2 | 1 | ||||
| T3-4 | 2.193 | 0.98 | 4.909 | ||
| Diffuse type GC | |||||
| Tumor death (OS) | LNR | 0.026 | 5.729 | 1.234 | 26.599 |
| Necrosis | 0.008 | 4.234 | 1.460 | 12.278 | |
| Recurrence (DFS) | Size | 0.001 | 1.018 | 1.005 | 1.030 |
| LNR | < 0.001 | 11.420 | 3.895 | 33.477 | |
DFS: disease-free survival; GC: Gastric cancer; LNR: Lymph node ratio; OS: overall survival.