Table 3 Multivariate regression analysis in predicting survival of 150 NSCLC patients
From: Neural-cadherin expression associated with angiogenesis in non-small-cell lung cancer patients
Histology | Non-small-cell lung cancer | Adenocarcinoma | Squamous cell carcinoma | Large cell carcinoma | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variables | Assigned score | Hazard ratio | P -value | Hazard ratio | P -value | Hazard ratio | P -value | Hazard ratio | P -value |
E-cadherin | |||||||||
 Positive | 0 | 1.736 | 0.0339 | 1.389 | 0.3503 | 2.662 | 0.0912 | 0.111 | 0.2586 |
 Negative | 1 | ||||||||
Tumour vascularity | |||||||||
 Hypovascular | 0 | 1.785 | 0.0295 | 1.121 | 0.7693 | 5.529 | 0.0053 | 24.815 | 0.0312 |
 Hypervascular | 1 | ||||||||
Tumour status | |||||||||
 T1 | 1 | 1.399 | 0.0013 | 1.352 | 0.0194 | 1.756 | 0.0816 | 7.020 | 0.0374 |
 T2 | 2 | ||||||||
 T3 | 3 | ||||||||
 T4 | 4 | ||||||||
Nodal status | |||||||||
 N0 | 0 | 1.829 | <0.0001 | 1.719 | 0.0007 | 2.916 | 0.0162 | 15.526 | 0.0160 |
 N1, N2, N3 | 1 | ||||||||
Smoking | |||||||||
 Nonsmoker | 0 | 1.485 | 0.1860 | 1.534 | 0.2838 | 2.461 | 0.3222 | 23.088 | 0.0834 |
 Smoker | 1 | ||||||||
Age (year) | |||||||||
 <60 | 0 | 0.898 | 0.7386 | 0.681 | 0.3459 | 2.034 | 0.5356 | 19.941 | 0.0530 |
 ⩾60 | 1 | ||||||||
