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Table 1 Clinicopathological characteristics of patients with invasive BrCa (N = 206)

From: Profiling the expression of pro-metastatic genes in association with the clinicopathological features of primary breast cancer

Variable

Total patients (n)

The relative frequency (%)

P-value*

Age at diagnosis (year)

 Mean ± S.D.

46.65 ± 8.61

  

 < 48

117

56.8

0.051

 ≥ 48

89

43.2

 

Age at first pregnancy (year)

 Mean ± S.D.

22.11 ± 4.86

  

 < 24

120

60.6

0.003

 ≥ 24

78

39.4

 

Age at menopause (year)

 Mean ± S.D.

47.86 ± 4.73

  

 Post-menopause

69

33.5

<0.001

 Pre-menopause

137

66.5

 

Age at menarche (year)

 Mean ± S.D.

13.52 ± 1.36

  

 < 13

40

19.9

<0.001

 ≥ 13

161

80.1

 

Tumor type

 IDC

172

92.0

<0.001

 Others

15

8.0

 

Tumor size (cm)

 Mean ± S.D.

2.96 ± 1.35

  

 T1 (size ≤ 2)

59

31.7

<0.001

 T2 (2 < size ≤ 5)

114

61.3

 

 T3 (size > 5)

13

7.0

 

Histologic grade

 I

39

20.9

<0.001

 II

126

67.4

 

 III

22

11.7

 

Axillary lymph node metastasis

   

 Negative

64

34.8

<0.001

 Positive

120

65.2

 

Tumor stage

   

 I

55

30.4

<0.001

 II

119

65.7

 

 III

7

3.9

 

ER

 Negative

23

12.7

<0.001

 Positive

158

87.3

 

PR

 Negative

27

14.9

<0.001

 Positive

154

85.1

 

HER2

 Negative

144

79.6

<0.001

 Positive

37

20.4

 

Molecular subtype

 Luminal A (ER ± , PR ± , and HER2-)

135

74.6

<0.001

 Luminal B (ER ± , PR ± , and HER2 +)

23

12.7

 

 HER2 rich (ER-, PR-, and HER2 +)

14

7.7

 

 Triple-negative (ER-, PR-, and HER2-)

9

5.0

 
  1. The statistically significant finding was shown in italics (P < 0.05)
  2. N number, S.D. standard deviation, ER estrogen receptor, PR progesterone receptor, HER2 human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, IDC invasive ductal carcinoma
  3. *The P-value was obtained by the Chi square test.
  4. Some missing existed in demographic and clinicopathologic data