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Open Access 01-12-2011 | Erratum
Erratum to:Prognostic significance of fascin expression in advanced colorectal cancer: an immunohistochemical study of colorectal adenomas and adenocarcinomas
Published in: BMC Cancer | Issue 1/2011
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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
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Table 4a. Cox's proportional hazard analysis in stage I-IV patients
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Variables
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Risk ratio (95% confidence Interval)
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p
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Age (≥ 65 yrs)
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1.618 (0/944-2.774)
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0.080
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Gender (male)
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1.626 (0.965-2.740)
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0.068
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Lymph node metastasis (N1, 2)
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0.253 (0.146-0.439)
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< 0.001*
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Distant metastasis (M1)
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0.581 (0.317-1.066)
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0.797
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Tumour location (distal)
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0.963 (0.550-1.686)
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0.894
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Fascin (high)
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0.548 (0.272-1.104)
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0.925
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Table 4b. Cox's proportional hazard analysis in stage III/IV patients
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Variable
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Risk ratio (95% confidence Interval)
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p
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Age (> 65 yrs)
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1.259 (0.683-2.318)
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0.460
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Gender (male)
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1.659 (0.886-3.108)
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0.114
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Lymph node metastasis (N1, 2)
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1.032 (0.358-2.972)
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0.934
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Distant metastasis (M1)
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0.803 (0.381-1.697)
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0.566
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Tumour location (distal)
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0.683 (0.362-1.289)
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0.240
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Fascin (high)
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0.435 (0.197-0.957)
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0.039*
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