Table 3 Univariate survival analysis for epithelial CXC-chemokine expression
 | All patients ( n =254) | Stage II patients ( n =163) | Stage III patients ( n =91) | |||||||||
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 | Recurrence-free survival | Overall survival | Recurrence-free survival | Overall survival | Recurrence-free survival | Overall survival | ||||||
 | Recurrences/ no. of patients | log-rank ( P) | Deaths/ no. of patients | log-rank ( P) | Recurrences/ no. of patients | log-rank ( P) | Deaths/ no. of patients | log-rank ( P) | Recurrences/ no. of patients | log-rank ( P) | Deaths/ no. of patients | log-rank ( P) |
Tumour stage | ||||||||||||
 II | 40/163 |  | 51/163 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 III | 51/91 | <0.001 | 55/91 | <0.001 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Tumour epithelial CXCR1 | ||||||||||||
 Absent/weak | 7/28 |  | 9/28 |  | 6/19 |  | 7/19 |  | 1/9 |  | 2/9 |  |
 Moderate | 63/160 | 0.379 | 69/160 | 0.586 | 59/103 | 0.156 | 65/103 | 0.146 | 4/57 | 0.675 | 4/57 | 0.106 |
 Strong | 10/22 |  | 11/22 |  | 10/14 |  | 11/14 |  | 0/8 |  | 0/8 |  |
Tumour epithelial CXCR2 | ||||||||||||
 Absent/weak | 8/18 |  | 9/18 |  | 8/13 |  | 9/13 |  | 0/5 |  | 0/5 |  |
 Moderate | 45/120 | 0.748 | 47/120 | 0.482 | 40/74 | 0.879 | 42/74 | 0.880 | 5/46 | 0.314 | 5/46 | 0.698 |
 Strong | 18/51 |  | 25/51 |  | 18/36 |  | 23/36 |  | 0/15 |  | 2/15 |  |
Tumour epithelial CXCL1 | ||||||||||||
 Absent/weak | 9/30 |  | 9/30 |  | 8/14 |  | 9/14 |  | 1/16 |  | 0/16 |  |
 Moderate | 63/162 | 0.546 | 71/162 | 0.409 | 61/107 | 0.585 | 66/107 | 0.628 | 2/55 | 0.041 | 5/55 | 0.061 |
 Strong | 8/21 |  | 9/21 |  | 6/14 |  | 7/14 |  | 2/7 |  | 2/7 |  |
Tumour inflammatory infiltrate CXCL8 | ||||||||||||
 Negative | 42/79 |  | 39/79 |  | 38/50 |  | 36/50 |  | 4/29 |  | 3/29 |  |
 Positive | 42/149 | <0.001 | 58/149 | 0.150 | 41/99 | <0.001 | 54/99 | 0.029 | 1/50 | 0.040 | 4/50 | 0.806 |