Correction [1]: It was recently brought to our attention that, although the statistical analyses in Table four had passed the original peer-review of this paper, the risk ratio and value of the lower 95% confidence interval for some of the variables in Table four were not consistent with the p values. We have repeated the multi-variant statistical analysis of the original data with StatView software. This analysis produced different values for the risk ratios and 95% confidence intervals for variables other than age. The corrected Table four is presented below (table 1). The p values are unchanged, thus the original conclusions of the article are not altered.
Table 1
Corrected table four
Table 4a. Cox's proportional hazard analysis in stage I-IV patients | ||
|---|---|---|
Variables | Risk ratio (95% confidence Interval) |
p
|
Age (≥ 65 yrs) | 1.618 (0/944-2.774) | 0.080 |
Gender (male) | 1.626 (0.965-2.740) | 0.068 |
Lymph node metastasis (N1, 2) | 0.253 (0.146-0.439) | < 0.001* |
Distant metastasis (M1) | 0.581 (0.317-1.066) | 0.797 |
Tumour location (distal) | 0.963 (0.550-1.686) | 0.894 |
Fascin (high) | 0.548 (0.272-1.104) | 0.925 |
Table 4b. Cox's proportional hazard analysis in stage III/IV patients | ||
Variable | Risk ratio (95% confidence Interval) |
p
|
Age (> 65 yrs) | 1.259 (0.683-2.318) | 0.460 |
Gender (male) | 1.659 (0.886-3.108) | 0.114 |
Lymph node metastasis (N1, 2) | 1.032 (0.358-2.972) | 0.934 |
Distant metastasis (M1) | 0.803 (0.381-1.697) | 0.566 |
Tumour location (distal) | 0.683 (0.362-1.289) | 0.240 |
Fascin (high) | 0.435 (0.197-0.957) | 0.039* |
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