Right- and left-sided colorectal cancers respond differently to traditional Chinese medicine

Table 2 Cox analysis for disease-free survival in left- and right-sided colorectal cancer

	Left-sided colorectal cancer			Right-sided colon cancer
	Univariate	Multivariate		Univariate	Multivariate
	P value	P value	HR (95%CI:)	P value	P value	HR (95%CI:)
Gender	0.024a	0.079	0.81 (0.63-1.02)	0.339	0.023a	0.63 (0.42-0.94)
Age	0.955	0.792	1.04 (0.80-1.34)	0.712	0.612	1.12 (0.72-1.76)
Histodifferentiation	0.648	0.016a	1.16 (1.03-1.31)	0.685	0.407	1.09 (0.89-1.33)
TNM stage	0.000a	0.000a	2.39 (1.96-2.90)	0.000a	0.000a	2.63 (1.85-3.72)
TCM	0.000a	0.000a	0.53 (0.41-0.67)	0.003a	0.000a	0.47 (0.31-0.71)
Diabetes	0.948	0.716	0.94 (0.66-1.32)	0.240	0.200	0.67 (0.36-1.24)
Hypertention	0.650	0.120	1.24 (0.94-1.64)	0.019a	0.005a	0.51 (0.31-0.81)
Heart disease	0.710	0.988	1.00 (0.66-1. 50)	0.461	0.155	1.57 (0.84-2.93)
Stroke	0.171	0.091	0.60 (0.33-1.09)	0.681	0.449	1.34 (0.63-2.83)

^aP < 0.05 statistical difference.