Prognostic factors of metastatic myxoid liposarcoma

BMC Cancer

Table 4 Factors for achievement of NED^a following local treatment (Logistic regression analysis)

	Univariate		Multivariable
Variable	OR (95%CI)	P-value	OR (95%CI)	P-value
Age (years)^‡	1.02	0.33	–	–
Time to metastasis^b (months)^‡	1.02	0.08	–	–
Number of metastases^‡	0.45	< 0.0001**	0.44 (0.25–0.78)	0.0007**
Size of metastasis (cm)^‡	0.85	0.04*	0.86 (0.71–1.04)	0.11
Location of metastasis
lung (n = 9)	0.35 (0.08–1.56)	0.27	–	–
bone (n = 15)	0.43 (0.12–1.51)	0.22	–	–
abdomen or retroperitoneum (n = 11)	0.048 (0.005–0.42)	0.001**	0.09 (0.008–0.95)	0.002**
liver (n = 9)	0.62 (0.14–2.66)	0.71	–	–

^aNED: Status after completion of radical or semi-radical treatment for all of the remaining tumor
^bInterval from primary diagnosis to the first metastasis. It was defined as 0 month in M1 patients
^‡calculated by unit odds ratio, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01

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