Table 3 Disease-free survival in the TransSCOT cohort and associations of clinicopathological features with GMS (n = 2912).

From: The Glasgow Microenvironment Score associates with prognosis and adjuvant chemotherapy response in colorectal cancer

Clinicopathological characteristics

Disease-free survival

GMS category

 

N (%)a

Univariate HR (95% CI)

P

Multivariate HR (95% CI)

P

0 (n = 383)

N (%)a

1 (n = 1867)

N (%)

2 (n = 663)

N (%)

Pearson X2

Gender

 Female

1135 (39)

    

156

(41)

716

(38)

263

(40)

0.63

 Male

1778 (61)

0.96 (0.83–1.11)

0.60

227

(59)

1151

(62)

400

(60)

 

T-stage

 T1

78 (3)

    

19

(5)

55

(3)

4

(1)

<0.001

 T2

250 (9)

    

59

(15)

160

(9)

31

(5)

 

 T3

1696 (58)

    

227

(60)

1131

(61)

338

(51)

 

 T4

889 (30)

1.70 (1.51–1.91)

<0.001

1.74 (1.53–1.98)

<0.001

78

(20)

521

(28)

290

(43)

 

N-stage

 N0

556 (19)

    

79

(21)

362

(19)

115

(17)

0.002

 N1

1663 (57)

    

224

(58)

1086

(58)

353

(53)

 

 N2

694 (24)

1.75 (1.57–1.96)

<0.001

1.73 (1.48–2.03)

<0.001

80

(21)

419

(22)

195

(29)

 

Site

 Colon

2402 (82)

    

310

(81)

1522

(81)

570

(86)

0.021

 Rectum

511 (18)

0.69 (0.56–0.85)

<0.001

0.12

73

(19)

345

(19)

93

(14)

 

Risk group

 T1-3/N1 (lower risk)

1284 (55)

    

202

(66)

861

(57)

221

(40)

<0.001

 T4 and/or N2 (higher risk)

1073 (45)

2.45 (2.08–2.88)

<0.001

0.13

102

(34)

644

(43)

327

(60)

 

Adjuvant therapy

 FOLFOX

846 (29)

    

120

(31)

526

(28)

200

(30)

0.36

 CAPOX

2067 (71)

1.08 (0.92–1.27)

0.32

263

(69)

1341

(72)

463

(70)

 

Treatment time

 3 months

1469 (50)

    

194

(51)

956

(51)

319

(48)

0.39

 6 months

1444 (50)

1.01 (0.88–1.16)

0.85

180

(49)

911

(49)

344

(52)

 

GMS

 0

300 (35)

    

 

 

 

 1

424 (49)

    

 

 

  

 2

138 (16)

1.48 (1.32–1.68)

<0.001

1.28 (1.12–1.47)

<0.001

 

 

  
  1. aPercentages rounded to nearest whole number and may not total 100%.
  2. Emboldened values indicates p value < 0.05