Table 3 The result of multivariate Cox proportional-hazards regression.

From: A nomogram to predict risk of lymph node metastasis in early gastric cancer

 

Wald χ2

HR (95.0% CI)

P value

CEA

10.486

4.905 (1.873–12.841)

0.001

Surgery type

Distal resection

7.949

1.000

0.041

Proximal resection

0.623

1.837 (0.406–8.315)

0.430

Total resection

7.786

4.518 (1.566–13.029)

0.005

pN stage

pN0

26.469

1.000

 < 0.001

pN1

1.988

1.906 (0.532–6.829)

0.159

pN2

5.269

2.381 (0.590–9.612)

0.022

pN3

25.734

9.166 (2.597–32.353)

 < 0.001

  1. P < 0.05 indicates statistical significance.
  2. HR hazard ratio.