Table 3 Univariate and multivariate analyses of prognostic parameters in patients with SCCE
From: Primary small cell carcinoma of the esophagus: clinicopathological study of 44 cases
| Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | No. | P | HR | 95.0% CI | p | |
| Tumor length | .045 | .288 | .086 | .963 | .043 | |
| > = 5 cm | 21 | |||||
| <5 cm | 18 | |||||
| Lgr5 expression | .001 | 1.519 | .346 | 6.659 | .580 | |
| Low | 23 | |||||
| High | 21 | |||||
| T classification | .725 | .760 | .276 | 2.090 | .595 | |
| T < =2 | 20 | |||||
| T > 2 | 20 | |||||
| N classification | .170 | 3.726 | 1.063 | 13.061 | .040 | |
| N0 | 16 | |||||
| N+ | 26 | |||||
| M classification | .096 | 4.861 | .902 | 26.212 | .066 | |
| M0 | 33 | |||||
| M1 | 10 | |||||
| Chemotherapy | .088 | .229 | .081 | .649 | .006 | |
| No | 16 | |||||
| Yes | 28 | |||||
| Surgery | .207 | 1.222 | .257 | 5.822 | .801 | |
| No | 11 | |||||
| Yes | 33 | |||||