Table 5 The correlation between surgery/ablation and path transfer in KEY nodes

From: Dynamically prognosticating patients with hepatocellular carcinoma through survival paths mapping based on time-series data

Nodes, n

With surgery/ablation

Without surgery/ablation

P value

Go up (n, %)

Go down (n, %)

Died/NS (n, %)

Go up (n, %)

Go down (n, %)

Died/NS (n, %)

S (p = 3, ts = 2)

20 (83.3)

2 (8.3)

2 (8.3)

37 (46.8)

2 (2.5)

40 (50.6)

<0.001

S (p = 5, ts = 3)

11 (84.6)

1 (7.7)

1 (7.7)

20 (50.0)

5 (12.5)

15 (37.5)

0.072a

S (p = 8, ts = 4)

13 (81.3)

2 (12.5)

1 (6.3)

16 (45.7)

12 (34.3)

7 (20.0)

0.070a

S (p = 2, ts = 1)

79 (71.2)

24 (21.6)

8 (7.2)

50 (15.2)

203 (61.5)

77 (23.3)

<0.001

S (p = 4, ts = 2)

17 (56.7)

7 (23.3)

6 (20.0)

28 (14.2)

38 (19.3)

131 (66.5)

<0.001

  1. p: path, ts: time slice, NS: no surveillance
  2. aFisher’s exact test