Younger Age Is Associated with Poorer Survival in Patients with Signet-Ring Cell Carcinoma of the Colon without Distant Metastasis

Table 2

Univariate analyses of determinants of cancer-specific survival (CSS) of patients with nonmetastatic signet-ring cell carcinoma of the colon.

Variable	5-year CSS	Log rank	value
Sex		0.466	0.495
Male	51.5%
Female	53.4%
Years of diagnosis		1.801	0.180
1988–2003	50.5%
2004–2011	53.7%
Race		3.169	0.205
White	53.7%
Black	43.4%
	50.2%
Pathology grade		1.503	0.138
Well/moderate	58.4%
Poor/undifferentiated	52.5%
LNH		0.168	0.682
≤18	51.2%
>18	53.5%
Tumor size (cm)		1.816	0.178
≤4.0	54.8%
>4.0	51.9%
Primary site		3.859	0.049
Right colon	54.9%
Left colon	43.3%
Age at diagnosis (year)		13.121	<0.001
≤35	31.1%
>35	54.9%
N stage		148.599	<0.001
N0	88.3%
N1	61.2%
N2	30.0%
T stage		63.528	<0.001
T1	90.4%
T2	84.1%
T3	59.8%
T4	30.2%

LNH: number of lymph nodes harvested.
Includes Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander, and unknown.