Research Article

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

Table 4

Multivariate survival analyses of determinants of cancer-specific survival (CSS) of patients with stage III signet-ring cell carcinoma of the colon.

VariablesMultivariate analysis
HR95% CI value

Primary site0.651
 Right colon1Reference
 Left colon0.9400.721–1.227
Age at diagnosis (year)0.034
 >351Reference
 ≤351.4161.027–1.951
N stage<0.001
 N11Reference
 N22.1701.628–2.894
T stage0.003
 T11Reference
 T21.4380.149–13.8300.753
 T32.4720.345–17.7230.368
 T43.7210.518–26.7530.192

HR: hazards ratio; CI: confidence interval.