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Table 5 Survival of the pulmonary metastasectomy from CRC in multivariate analysis

From: Prognostic factors in pulmonary metastasectomy and efficacy of repeat pulmonary metastasectomy from colorectal cancer

Prognostic factors

p value

Risk ratio

95% confidence interval

Gender (male/female)

0.60

1.324

0.484–4.381

Past history of extra thoracic metastasis (presence/absence)

0.67

1.205

0.511–2.922

Preoperative CEA level (elevated/normal)

0.89

1.083

0.356–3.547

Maximum tumor size (≧ 20 mm/< 20 mm)

0.74

1.203

0.401–3.646

Mediastinal lymph node metastasis (positive/negative)

0.02*

8.206

1.566–34.962

Repeat pulmonary metastasectomy for the pulmonary recurrence (yes/no)

< 0.001***

0.054

0.010–0.202

  1. CRC colorectal cancer, CEA carcinoembryonic antigen level, normal upper limit at 5 ng/ml
  2. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
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World Journal of Surgical Oncology

ISSN: 1477-7819

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