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.
| Variables | Multivariate analysis | HR | 95% CI | value |
| Primary site | | | 0.651 | Right colon | 1 | Reference | | Left colon | 0.940 | 0.721–1.227 | | Age at diagnosis (year) | | | 0.034 | >35 | 1 | Reference | | ≤35 | 1.416 | 1.027–1.951 | | N stage | | | <0.001 | N1 | 1 | Reference | | N2 | 2.170 | 1.628–2.894 | | T stage | | | 0.003 | T1 | 1 | Reference | | T2 | 1.438 | 0.149–13.830 | 0.753 | T3 | 2.472 | 0.345–17.723 | 0.368 | T4 | 3.721 | 0.518–26.753 | 0.192 |
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HR: hazards ratio; CI: confidence interval.
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