Refusal of Cancer-Directed Surgery Strongly Impairs Survival of Patients with Localized Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Table 3

Logistic regression analysis of factors associated with recommendation of cancer-directed surgery in patients with localized HCC.

Characteristics	Group	OR	95% Cl	𝑃-value
Age	<60	1.00
	≥60	0.606	0.551–0.667	<.001
Gender	Female	1.00
	Male	0.816	0.735–0.906	<.001
Ethnicity	White	1.00
	Black	0.920	0.794–1.066	.268
	Others	0.962	0.868–1.067	.465
Marital status	Married	1.00
	Widowed	0.696	0.602–0.805	<.001
	Divorced/separated	0.731	0.631–0.847	<.001
	Singled	0.705	0.616–0.806	<.001
	Other	1.016	0.791–1.304	.903
Grade	Low grade	1.00
	High grade	0.609	0.518–0.716	<.001
	Unknown	0.319	0.290–0.351	<.001
Tumor size	<5 cm	1.00
	≥5 cm	0.398	0.310–0.510	<.001
	Unknown	0.652	0.546–0.779	<.001
Year of diagnosis	1985–1994	1.00
	1995–2004	0.841	0.742–0.954	.007

OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval.