Tumor Characteristics Associated with Lymph Node Metastasis and Prognosis in Patients with ERBB2-Positive Gastric Cancer

Table 3

Multivariate analyses of risk factors for lymph node metastasis.

Variables	Hazard ratio (95% CI)	-value
Tumor size (≤4 cm/>4 cm)	6.213 (2.097–18.407)	0.001
Neural invasion (No/Yes)	2.876 (1.011–8.184)	0.048
Vascular invasion (No/Yes)	16.881 (5.207–54.727)	<0.001
Tumor deposit (No/Yes)	3.147 (0.543–18.235)	0.201
AJCC T stage (T1−3/t4)	0.800 (0.221–2.898)	0.734