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Table 4 Univariate and multivariate analysis of associations between clinicopathological characteristics and overall survival

From: Lymphocyte to C-reactive protein ratio predicts long-term outcomes for patients with lower rectal cancer

Characteristic

Univariate analysis

Multivariate analysis

5-year OS (%)

P value

Hazard ratio

P value

Age (</≥ 70 years)

70.1/82.0

0.20

0.99

0.99

Gender (male/female)

80.4/72.7

0.56

1.22

0.81

WBC (</≥ 9000/μL)

74.8/100

0.31

5.13

0.39

TLC (</≥ 1500/μL)

72.2/81.8

0.44

0.72

0.83

Alb (</≥ 4 mg/dL)

71.5/84.6

0.90

0.67

0.68

CRP (</≥ 0.5 mg/dL)

77.3/80.0

0.77

0.10

0.14

Tumor characteristic

 Differentiation (tub1/tub2)

84.2/70.2

0.09

3.72

0.31

 CEA (</≥ 5 ng/mL)

74.9/84.6

0.68

0.63

0.64

 CA19-9 (</≥ 37 IU/mL)

84.0/42.9

0.07

19.8

< 0.05

 Pathological response (grade 2/> 2)

73.2/87.5

0.07

0.27

0.27

 fStage (I/II/II)

86.4/61.9

< 0.05

3.27

0.30

Immune factors

 Pre-CRT PNI (low/high)

78.2/78.0

0.99

0.72

0.85

 Post-CRT PNI (low/high)

67.1/90.1

0.19

4.24

0.29

 Pre-CRT NLR (low/high)

83.3/73.2

0.38

0.80

0.85

 Post-CRT NLR (low/high)

95.6/61.5

< 0.05

1.15

0.92

 Pre-CRT LCR (low/high)

70.3/80.1

0.14

0.30

0.34

 Post-CRT LCR (low/high)

65.5/90.6

< 0.05

0.06

< 0.05

  1. For low/high categories, patients were stratified using the median LCR. WBC white blood cell, TLC total lymphocyte count, Alb albumin, CRP C-reactive protein, CEA carcinoembryonic antigen, tub1 well-differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma, tub2 moderately differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma, S-1 tegafur-gimeracil-oteracil, UFT tegafur-uracil, 5-FU 5-fluorouracil, CRT chemo-radiotherapy, LAR low anterior resection, ISR intersphincteric resection, APR abdominoperineal resection, TLC total lymphocyte count, LCR lymphocyte-CRP ratio, NLR neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio, PNI prognostic nutritional index