Table 11.

Patient and tumor characteristics significantly predicting disease-specific (cancer-specific) survival amongst laryngeal cancer patients by multivariable Cox proportional hazard model. The initial model included all significant variables by univariable.

Variable/Factor	Statistic	Increased Risk of Death
TNM Stage	Base comparison to: IV (vs. III, II, I, Missing) HR = −0.717, −1.423, −0.818, −0.757 SE = 0.264, 0.276, 0.248, 0.248 p < 0.0001, 0.007, 0.0001, 0.001, 0.002	Stage IV> Stage III, II, Missing > Stage I