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Table 8 Multivariate Cox proportional hazards model for survival of patients with STM from lung cancer

From: Imaging features and prognostic value of 18F-FDG PET/CT detection of soft-tissue metastasis from lung cancer: a retrospective study

Variablea

B

SE

Wald

df

P-value

HR

95.0% CI for HR

Lower

Upper

SCLC

1.065

0.375

8.051

1

0.005

2.901

1.390

6.053

SUVmax of STM

0.776

0.268

8.404

1

0.004

2.172

1.286

3.670

Bone metastasis

0.633

0.276

5.239

1

0.022

1.883

1.095

3.237

Brain metastasis

0.970

0.355

7.481

1

0.006

2.638

1.316

5.288

  1. CI Confidence interval, HR Hazard ratio, SCLC Small cell lung cancer, STM Soft-tissue metastasis; SUVmax, maximum standardized uptake value
  2. aVariables selected by “forward (Wald)”
  3. Statistically significant P-values are highlighted in bold