Correlates of Long-Term Survival of Patients with pN+ Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma after Esophagectomy

Table 3

Results of multivariate analysis showing factors associated with OS of patients with pN + ESCC.

Factors	Hr (95% CI)
Gender
Male	1.346 (1.053–1.722)	0.018
Female	1
Site of lesion
Upper	1.056 (0.688–1.621)	0.804
Middle	1.350 (1.037–1.758)	0.026
Lower	1
Resected LN
<12	1.258 (1.010–1.567)	0.041
≥12	1
pTNM
IIb	1
IIIa	1.328 (0.883–1.996)	0.173
IIIb	2.055 (1.329–3.179)	0.001
IIIc	2.766 (1.719–4.450)	<0.001
Adjuvant therapy
No	1
POCT	0.603 (0.471–0.773)	<0.001
PORT	0.539 (0.379–0.765)	0.001
POCRT	0.400 (0.264–0.606)	<0.001
NLR
<3.5	0.737 (0.590–0.920)	0.007
≥3.5	1