Prognosis and risk factors of patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma and postoperative recurrence of bladder cancer in central China

Table 2 The outcomes of multiple COX regression analysis in the prognosis of UTUC

Variable	B	SE	Wald	Exp(B)	P
Smoking	0.964	0.214	20.207	2.381	< 0.01
THCAA	0.633	0.214	6.870	1.883	0.009
Age	0.357	0.169	4.468	0.700	0.035
Sex	0.002	0.145	0.000	1.002	0.991
Number of tumors	0.061	0.159	0.149	1.063	0.700
History of BC	0.698	0.228	9.356	2.010	0.002
LNM	1.994	0.353	31.915	7.343	< 0.01
Tumor size	0.449	0.158	8.086	0.638	< 0.01
Tumor location	0.162	0.260	0.390	0.850	0.532
Tumor stage	1.304	0.157	69.163	3.683	< 0.01
Tumor grade	2.157	0.298	52.291	8.646	< 0.01
Operation mode	0.472	0.378	1.559	1.603	0.212
DM	0.742	0.357	3.458	2.204	0.076

THCAA taking Chinese herbs containing aristolochic acid, LNM lymph node metastasis, DM diabetes mellitus

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