Research Article

Additional Postoperative Radiotherapy Prolonged the Survival of Patients with I-IIA Small Cell Lung Cancer: Analysis of the SEER Database

Table 2

Results of univariate Cox proportion hazard analysis for OS and CSS before PSM.

CharacteristicsOSCSS
HR [95% CI] valueHR [95% CI] value

Radiation sequence
 No PORTReference
 PORT0.84 [0.58–1.23]0.3760.73 [0.46–1.14]0.166
Age1.03 [1.01–1.06]0.0051.02 [1–1.05]0.084

Race
 BlackReference
 White1.09 [0.35–3.44]0.8780.78 [0.25–2.46]0.669
 Other1.99 [0.4–9.87]0.4021.87 [0.38–9.3]0.443

Gender
 FemaleReference
 Male1.55 [1.09–2.23]0.0161.47 [0.97–2.23]0.071

T
 T1Reference
 T21.07 [0.73–1.58]0.7281.17 [0.75–1.83]0.497

Surgery type
 Sublobar resectionReference
 Lobectomy or extended0.38 [0.26–0.55]<0.0010.34 [0.22–0.52]<0.001
 Pneumonectomy or extended0.22 [0.03–1.6]0.1350.3 [0.04–2.22]0.241

value < 0.05; value < 0.01; value < 0.001.