Prognostic Significance of N-Glycolyl GM3 Ganglioside Expression in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Patients: New Evidences

Table 5

Univariate and multivariate analyses of overall survival in studied population.

Characteristics	Overall survival
	Univariate	Multivariate
	value	value	HR (CI 95%)
Gender	0.309	0.047	2.500 (1.014–6.164)
Age	0.739
Tumor size	0.907	0.003	0.162 (0.049–0.528)
Lymph node metastasis	0.000
Other sites metastasis	0.000	0.029	5.269 (1.190–23.323)
Stage	0.000
Disease recurrence	0.000	0.001	7.412 (2.311–23.771)
Histological subtype	0.529
Grade of differentiation	0.952
NeuGcGM3 expression	0.020	0.010	3.394 (1.342–8.584)

HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval. Bold value indicates statistical significance.