Table 4 Cox proportional hazard model for overall survival in 149 patients.

From: Prognostic histologic subtyping of dominant tumor in resected synchronous multiple adenocarcinomas of lung

Variable

Univariate

Multivariate

HR

95% CI

p value

HR

95% CI

p value

Age (≥ 65 years old)

4.756

2.104–10.751

< 0.001

2.823

1.187–6.713

0.019

Gender (male)

1.667

0.801–3.470

0.172

   

Smoking history

2.646

1.273–5.501

0.009

1.719

0.745–3.965

0.204

Preoperative CEA level (> 6.0 ng/mL)

1.632

0.661–4.029

0.288

   

Maximum tumor dimension (> 30 mm)*

3.066

1.472–6.384

0.003

1.959

0.911–4.213

0.085

Radiologic appearance (solid)*

4.129

1.566–10.888

0.004

0.724

0.226–2.325

0.588

Pleural invasion (PL1, PL2, PL3)*

3.254

1.374–7.706

0.007

1.888

0.687–5.190

0.218

Histology differentiation (poor)*

3.784

1.781–8.041

0.001

1.410

0.531–3.741

0.490

Angiolymphatic invasion*

2.633

1.232–5.629

0.013

1.041

0.422–2.571

0.930

Subtyping predominate (high-grade)*

7.329

3.426–15.676

< 0.001

3.287

1.323–8.168

0.010

Tumor distribution (bilateral)

0.766

0.311–1.885

0.562

   

Tumor located in the same lobe

0.855

0.378–1.934

0.706

   

Adjuvant chemotherapy

1.632

0.661–4.029

0.288

   

Second dominant subtyping (invasive type)**

4.514

1.706–11.949

0.002

1.879

0.654–5.396

0.241

  1. Calculated by Cox regression method.
  2. CEA Carcinoembryonic antigen.
  3. *Dominant tumor.
  4. **Second dominant tumor with other than lepidic predominant subtype.