Impact of hepatectomy and postoperative adjuvant transarterial chemoembolization on serum tumor markers and prognosis in intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma

Table 4 Multifactor Cox regression analysis

Considerations	Beta value	SE	χ2 value	P value	HR value	95%CI
						Lower limit	Limit
Age	0.399	0.247	2.607	0.106	1.491	0.918	2.421
Cirrhosis	0.617	0.237	6.751	0.009b	1.853	1.164	2.950
Number of tumours	0.586	0.256	5.246	0.022a	1.798	1.088	2.969
Maximum tumour diameter	0.678	0.249	7.443	0.006b	1.970	1.210	3.207
Degree of tumour differentiation	0.120	0.151	0.634	0.426	1.128	0.839	1.517
AFP	-1.434	0.335	18.329	< 0.001c	0.238	0.124	0.460
Treatment programme	0.642	0.248	6.703	0.010a	1.900	1.169	3.088

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.

^cP < 0.001.

HR: Hazard ratio; CI: Confidence interval; AFP: Alpha-fetoprotein.