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Table 3 Univariate and multivariate analyses of prognostic factors for survival

From: Clinical outcomes and prognostic factors for gastric cancer patients with bone metastasis

  

Univariate analysis

Multivariate analysis

RR (95% CI)

p value

RR (95% CI)

p value

Age

≥75

    

<75

1.8 (0.25–13.7)

0.54

  

Gender

Male

    

Female

1.1 (0.45–2.9)

0.78

  

ECOG performance status

0–1

    

2–4

1.4 (0.57–3.4)

0.48

1.1 (0.41–2.8)

0.88

Bone pain

Absent

    

Present

2.0 (0.90–4.5)

0.091

2.7 (0.93–8.1)

0.068

Histologic type

Undifferentiated

    

Differentiated

1.1 (0.53–2.5)

0.73

  

Stagea

I–III

    

IV

1.0 (0.46–2.2)

0.99

  

Pattern of bone metastasis

Synchronous

    

Metachronous

2.8 (1.1–7.5)

0.038

3.6 (1.1–11.7)

0.035

Extraosseous metastasis

Absent

    

Present

1.1 (0.47–2.8)

0.77

4.1 (1.2–14.9)

0.028

  1. Abbreviations: CI confidential interval, ECOG Eastern Cooperative Oncology
  2. aStage was according to the 14th edition of the Japanese classification of gastric carcinoma