Prognostic Significance of Preoperative Serum Carcinoembryonic Antigen Varies with Lymph Node Metastasis Status in Colorectal Cancer

Table 2

Multivariate analysis for CRC patients.

	value	OR	95% CI used for Exp (B)
			Lower	Upper
Gender	0.447	0.868	0.603	1.250
Age	0.234	1.031	0.747	1.516
T category
T1	1 (reference)
T2	0.107	1.350	0.937	1.945
T3	0.167	0.365	0.087	1.523
T4	0.000	1.902	1.686	3.014
N category
N0	1 (reference)
N1	0.650	0.630	0.085	4.643
N2	0.000	2.533	1.913	3.775
Location
Right	1 (reference)
Left	0.514	1.738	0.816	2.707
Rectum	0.442	1.262	0.698	2.282
pCEA level	0.000	1.931	1.396	2.421

CEA: carcinoembryonic antigen; OR: odds ratio; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval.