Table 4 Interrelationships between different pathological and clinical parameters in patients selected for potentially curative resection for oesophageal adenocarcinoma without neo-adjuvant therapy (n=53)

From: The relationship between tumour necrosis, tumour proliferation, local and systemic inflammation, microvessel density and survival in patients undergoing potentially curative resection of oesophageal adenocarcinoma

 

Sex

mGPS

TNM stage

Tumour differentiation

Resection margin

LNR

Klintrup– Makinen score

Necrosis score

CD8 tertiles

CD68 tertiles

Ki67 tertiles

CD34 tertiles

Age in years (<65/65–74/75 years)

0.131

0.262

0.706

0.978

0.674

0.412

0.991

0.266

0.951

0.753

0.375

0.952

Sex (male/female)

 

0.545

0.654

0.070

0.706

0.259

0.416

0.302

0.615

0.580

0.433

0.726

mGPS

  

0.624

0.645

0.988

0.085

0.697

0.833

0.661

0.440

0.454

0.806

TNM stage (I/II/III)

   

0.034

0.001

<0.001

0.325

0.380

0.169

0.229

0.503

0.183

Tumour differentiation (well-mod/poor)

    

1.00

0.001

0.503

0.053

0.906

0.028

0.740

0.849

Resection margin (R0/R1)

     

0.011

0.149

0.074

0.032

0.347

0.789

0.726

LNR

      

0.008

0.921

0.042

0.076

0.198

0.318

Klintrup–Makinen score (low/high grade)

       

0.509

0.011

0.722

0.160

0.412

Necrosis score (low/high grade)

        

0.485

0.359

0.051

0.685

CD8 tertiles

         

0.083

0.570

0.799

CD68 tertiles

          

0.259

0.709

Ki67 tertiles

           

0.507

  1. Abbreviations: LNR=lymph node ratio; mGPS=modified Glasgow Prognostic score; TNM=tumour node metastasis.