Table 1 Patient and tumor characteristics

From: PAM50 gene signatures and breast cancer prognosis with adjuvant anthracycline- and taxane-based chemotherapy: correlative analysis of C9741 (Alliance)

Variable

All treated C9741 patients (N=1,972)a

Subset evaluable by PAM50 (N=1,311)b

P-valuec

Number of positive nodes; median (IQR)

3 (1, 5)

3 (1, 5)

0.655

Age in years; median (IQR)

50 (43, 57)

50 (43, 57)

0.697

Tumor size

2 cm

787 (40%)

478 (36%)

<0.001

 >2 cm

1140 (58%)

803 (61%)

 

 Missing

45 (2%)

30 (2%)

 

ER status

 Positive

1275 (65%)

822 (63%)

0.022

 Negative

663 (33%)

468 (36%)

 

 Missing

34 (2%)

21 (1%)

 

PgR status

 Positive

1108 (56%)

706 (54%)

0.008

 Negative

821 (42%)

578 (44%)

 

 Missing

43 (2%)

27 (2%)

 

Menopausal status

 Pre

976 (49%)

642 (49%)

0.513

 Post

996 (51%)

669 (51%)

 

Treatment arm

 Sequential—q3

483 (25%)

314 (24%)

0.408

 Sequential—q2

493 (25%)

343 (26%)

 

 Concurrent—q3

501 (25%)

330 (25%)

 

 Concurrent—q2

495 (25%)

324 (25%)

 

Recurrence-free survival at

 3 years (95% CI)

0.84 (0.82, 0.85)

0.83 (0.81, 0.85)

0.402

 5 years (95% CI)

0.77 (0.75, 0.79)

0.76 (0.74, 0.79)

 

 10 years (95% CI)

0.67 (0.65, 0.69)

0.67 (0.64, 0.69)

 

Overall survival at

 3 years (95% CI)

0.92 (0.90, 0.93)

0.91 (0.90, 0.93)

0.403

 5 years (95% CI)

0.85 (0.83, 0.86)

0.84 (0.82, 0.86)

 

 10 years (95% CI)

0.72 (0.70, 0.74)

0.72 (0.69, 0.74)

 
  1. Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; ER, estrogen receptor; IQR, interquartile range.
  2. aN=1,973 patients were reported in the primary manuscript, but one patient was later excluded having never begun treatment.
  3. bN=1,311 because 10 patients with PAM50 genomic results never started protocol directed therapy.
  4. cP-values are for comparisons of the 1,311 patients evaluable for PAM50 versus the 661 treated patients who were not evaluable. Comparisons for categorical variables use Pearson's χ2 test; for continuous variables use Wilcoxon rank-sum tests; and for time-to-event variables use logrank tests.