From: Risk factors of postoperative recurrences in patients with clinical stage I NSCLC
Variables | Locoregional recurrence | Distant metastasis | ||||
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No (n = 244) | Yes (n = 17) | p-valuea | No (n = 241) | Yes (n = 20) | p-valuea | |
Age (y) | 61.51 ± 12.32 | 59.94 ± 10.14 | 0.609 | 61.11 ± 12.33 | 65.00 ± 9.82 | 0.170 |
SUVmax of tumor | 4.55 ± 4.05 | 5.79 ± 3.91 | 0.251 | 4.44 ± 3.96 | 6.69 ± 4.39 | 0.020 |
Tumor size (cm) | 2.76 ± 1.54 | 2.76 ± 1.07 | 0.991 | 2.67 ± 1.49 | 3.83 ± 1.41 | 0.001 |
CEA (ng/mL) | 4.59 ± 9.29 | 14.58 ± 33.44 | 0.267 | 5.01 ± 12.65 | 10.31 ± 23.34 | 0.346 |