Research Article

Prognostic Factors for Cancer-Specific Survival and Disease-Free Interval of Dogs with Mammary Carcinomas

Table 5

Analysis of maximum likelihood estimates of multivariate logistic regression to predict the probability of overall survival and disease-free interval for at least 1 year after surgery in dogs affected by mammary tumor.

ParameterEstimateStandard error

Cancer-specific survival
Intercept3.63291.0338
Grade (1)0.91090.4777
Grade (2)0.29410.4453
Grade (3)
Age−0.23070.0947
c (area under ROC curve) = 0.816

Disease-free interval
Intercept3.85241.0272
Grade (1)0.48080.3946
Grade (2)0.57940.4269
Grade (3)
Age−0.28110.0956
c (area under ROC curve) = 0.823