A predictive model for treatment response in patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after concurrent chemoradiotherapy: based on SUVmean and NLR

Table 3 Univariate and multivariate analyses for tumor response in training set (OR and non-OR)

variable	Categories	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
variable	Categories	HR	95% CI	p	HR	95% CI	p
Age	< 60 versus ≥60	0.556	0.190–1.621	0.282
Sex	Male versus Female	0.833	0.280–2.480	0.743
Smoking history	Yes versus No	1.074	0.413–2.795	0.884
Drinking history	Yes versus No	1.074	0.413–2.795	0.884
T stage	T1–3 versus T4	0.733	0.236–2.282	0.592
N stage	T0 versus T1–3	0.273	0.057–1.309	0.105
Tumor stage	II versus III	11.81	1.48–94.27	0.020	10.92	1.17–102.12	0.036
Tumor location	Cervical	2.000	0.201–19.914	0.554
	Upper thoracic	1.429	0.473–4.313	0.527
	Mid-thoracic	reference	–	–
	Lower thoracic	1.000	0.250–3.998	1.000
NLR	≤ 2.42 versus > 2.42	5.84	1.99–17.15	0.001	7.17	2.12–24.20	0.002
SUVmean	≤5.81 versus > 5.81	6.88	2.33–20.38	< 0.001	3.95	1.16–13.47	0.028

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