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Table 4 Multivariate analysis of patients divided into the response and non-response groups

From: Effect of the types of pretreatment imaging modalities on the treatment response to palliative radiation for painful bone metastases from solid cancer: a single-center retrospective analysis

 

Odds ratio

95% CI

p-value

Metastases site (Vertebral or non-vertebral)

1.18

0.4482–3.1082

0.74

Pathological fracture

2.06

0.7252–5.8318

0.18

MRI

1.14

0.4553–2.8480

0.78

Bone scintigraphy

0.96

0.3966–2.3427

0.94

18FDG-PET

0.56

0.1128–2.8277

0.49

  1. CI confidence interval, MRI magnetic resonance imaging, 18FDG-PET 18fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography