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Table 6 Results of multivariate Cox regression model of disease free survival

From: Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery vs Thoracotomy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Greater Than 5 cm: Is VATS a feasible approach for large tumors?

Covariates

Coefficient

Standard error

P-value

Hazard ratio

95% Cl

Age

0.015

0.045

0.737

1.015

0.930–1.108

Gender (0: Male, 1: Female)

-13.419

1112.087

0.990

0.000

0.000

Tumor size

-0.731

0.353

0.380

0.481

0.241–1.961

Approach (0: VATS, 1: Thoracotomy)

1.989

0.878

0.023

7.311

1.309–40.827

Stage (0: II, 1: III)

4.886

1.657

0.003

132.403

5.141–3405.902

Pathological subtype

  

0.156

  

 Squamous cell ca

Ref

    

 Adeno ca

0.268

0.679

0.693

1.308

0.346–4.950

 Large cell ca

2.583

0.679

0.054

13.234

0.959–182.552

Time interval between surgery and adjuvant therapy

0.009

0.023

0.681

1.009

0.965–1.055

Overall number of nodal stations dissected

-0.008

0.405

0.985

0.993

0.449–2.195

Nodal status

  

0.075

  

 N0

Ref

    

 N1

-3.591

1.579

0.023

0.028

0.001–0.609

 N2

-16.790

596.799

0.978

0.000

0.000