Abstract:Objective To investigate the effect of multiple clinicopathological risk factors and c-MET over-expression on prognosis of the patients undergoing resection of stage ⅠB non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods Totally 118 patients with stage ⅠB NSCLC undergoing surgical resection were analyzed retrospectively. The clinicopathological factors and c-MET expression were analyzed. Kaplan-Meier method was used to analyze the survival rate. Cox model was used for analysis of the influencing factors of prognosis and recurrence. Results Age (>64 years), smoking history, poor differentiation, pleural involvement, vascular invasion, and c-MET positivity were the factors influencing the prognosis of NSCLC in stage ⅠB (P < 0.05). Coexistence of vascular invasion and pleural involvement, vascular invasion and c-MET positivity were the independent factors influencing progression-free survival (PFS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) (P < 0.05). Coexistence of vascular invasion and low differentiation, low differentiation and c-MET were the independent factors influencing PFS and overall survival of the patients with stage ⅠB NSCLC (P < 0.05). C-MET positivity was the risk factor for local recurrence (P < 0.05), while vascular invasion was the risk factor for distant metastasis (P < 0.05). Conclusions Vascular invasion and c-MET positive expression are the independent risk factors for prognosis of the patients with stage ⅠB NSCLC. The survival rate of the patients with multiple clinicopathological factors is significantly lower than that of the patients with a single factor. It is suggested that the patients with two or more clinicopathological factors accept adjuvant chemotherapy.