Staging of gastric cancer with the Clinical Stage Prediction score

Table 3 Scores of the factors for predicting the stage of gastric cancer

	Multivariate analysis P value	β-coefficient	Weighted score
Tumor marker
CEA	0.0031	0.08	2
Tumor diameter
≥ 60	< 0.0001	0.24	8
Location/extent
Circumferential	0.0205	0.09	2
Esophagus	0.0441	0.07	2
Histology
Mucinous	0.0284	0.04	1
Macroscopic type
Type 0	0.0003	− 0.274	− 7
Type 2	< 0.0001	0.3	10
Type 3	< 0.0001	0.48	16
Type 4	0.00042	0.3	10

The CSP score was devised by assigning scores for the factors identified by multivariate analysis, with weighting according to the relative magnitude of the non-standardized β-coefficient

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