Serum basic fibroblast growth factor and interleukin-1β predict the effect of first-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer

Table 4 Cox regression analysis to predict the effect of first-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer

Related factors	HR	95%CI	Standard error	P value
bFGF (pg/mL)	2.917	1.066-7.978	0.513	0.037
IL-1β (pg/mL)	1.155	1.062-3.124	0.563	0.078
TNF-α (μg/L)	1.037	0.669-2.140	0.436	0.092
Single organ transfer	0.073	0.019-1.320	0.721	0.541
Multi-organ metastases	1.024	0.725-1.925	0.547	0.354
Tumor location	1.093	0.763-1.724	0.852	0.320
Tissue differentiation	1.115	0.975-1.520	0.973	0.163

bFGF: Basic fibroblast growth factor; IL-1β: Interleukin-1β; TNF-α: Tumour necrosis factor α.