Clinicopathological differences, risk factors and prognostic scores for western patients with intestinal and diffuse-type gastric cancer

Table 3 Independent risk factors for tumor recurrence and cancer-specific death in intestinal and diffuse-type gastric cancer

Dependent variable	Factor	P value	HR	95%CI for HR
				Lower	Upper
Intestinal type GC
Tumor death (OS)	LNR	0.004	32.424	3.057	343.96
	Growth	0.052
	Expansive
	Infiltrative		4.678	0.987	22.177
Recurrence (DFS)	LNR	0.03	3.758	1.138	12.411
	Vascular invasion	0.005	2.829	1.379	5.806
	T stage	0.056
	T1-2		1
	T3-4		2.193	0.98	4.909
Diffuse type GC
Tumor death (OS)	LNR	0.026	5.729	1.234	26.599
	Necrosis	0.008	4.234	1.460	12.278
Recurrence (DFS)	Size	0.001	1.018	1.005	1.030
	LNR	< 0.001	11.420	3.895	33.477

DFS: disease-free survival; GC: Gastric cancer; LNR: Lymph node ratio; OS: overall survival.