Multidisciplinary treatment for patients with stage IV gastric cancer: the role of conversion surgery following chemotherapy

Table 3 Multivariable Cox proportional hazard model of overall survival

Variables^a	HR (95% CI)	p-value
Best response of metastatic site		0.050
CR/PR	1
SD/PD	1.822 (0.999–3.323)
Change of CEA level		0.024
Stable	1
Improved	0.564 (0.259–1.226)	0.148
Worse	5.013 (1.477–17.017)	0.010
NA	0.973 (0.504–1.877)	0.935
Complete Macroscopic Resection		0.005
Yes	1
No	1.998 (1.233–3.238)

CR complete response, PR partial response, SD stable disease, PD progressive disease, CEA carcinoembryonic antigen
^athe final model was selected by a forward likelihood ratio method from the variables with p-value < 0.10 in a univariate Cox proportional hazard model
The bold represents statistical significance

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