Table 1 Clinical characteristics of premenopausal patients

From: Tamoxifen metabolism predicts drug concentrations and outcome in premenopausal patients with early breast cancer

 

Singapore (n=164)

Lebanon (n=78)

POSH (n=345)

Overall (n=587)

P-valuea

 

No. of patients

%

No. of patients

%

No. of patients

%

No. of patients

%

 

Follow-up, years

        

<0.001

 Median

4.0

4.1

6.4

5.5

 

 Range

1.3–14.2

1.9–8.5

1.2–11.6

1.2–14.2

 

Age at diagnosis, years

        

<0.001

 Median

47.0

43.0

37.5

39.1

 

 Range

30.0–59.0

24.0–51.0

22.0–41.0

22.0–59.0

 

BMI

        

<0.001

30

153

93.3

62

79.5

272

78.8

487

82.9

 

 >30

10

6.1

16

20.5

65

18.8

91

15.5

 

 Unknown

1

0.6

  

8

2.3

9

1.5

 

Ethnicity

        

<0.001

 Caucasian

    

320

92.8

320

54.5

 

 Asian

164

100

  

5

1.4

169

28.8

 

 African

    

15

4.3

15

2.6

 

 Middle Eastern

  

78

100

  

78

13.3

 

 Unknown

    

5

1.4

5

0.9

 

Tumor size (cm)

        

0.004

2

95

57.9

30

38.5

174

50.4

299

50.9

 

 2–5

58

35.4

35

44.9

142

41.2

235

40.0

 

 >5

11

6.7

13

16.7

20

5.8

44

7.5

 

 Unknown

    

9

2.6

9

1.5

 

Nodal status

        

0.08

 Negative

92

56.1

40

51.3

159

46.1

291

49.6

 

 Positive

69

42.1

38

48.7

184

53.3

291

49.6

 

 Unknown

3

1.8

  

2

0.6

5

0.9

 

Grading

        

0.21

 G1

  

14

17.9

38

11.0

52

8.9

 

 G2

  

35

44.9

178

51.6

213

36.3

 

 G3

  

27

34.6

125

36.2

152

25.9

 

 Unknown

164

100

2

2.6

4

1.2

170

29.0

 

Hormone receptor status

        

0.472

 (ER or PR) Positive

164

100

78

100

340

98.6

582

99.1

 

 (ER and PR) Negative

    

3

0.9

3

0.5

 

 Unknown

    

2

0.6

2

0.3

 

HER2 status

        

0.252

 Positive

43

26.2

18

23.1

66

19.1

127

21.6

 

 Negative

112

68.3

60

76.9

158

45.8

330

56.2

 

 Unknown

9

5.5

  

121

35.1

130

22.1

 

Chemotherapy

        

0.001

 Yes

143

87.2

69

88.5

261

75.7

473

80.6

 

 No

21

12.8

9

11.5

84

24.3

114

19.4

 

CYP2D6 phenotypes

        

<0.001

 PM/PM

  

4

5.1

30

8.7

34

5.8

 

 hetEM/IM

129

78.7

37

47.4

205

59.4

371

63.2

 

 EM/UM

33

20.1

37

47.4

110

31.9

180

30.7

 

 Unknown

2

1.2

    

2

0.3

 
  1. Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; EM, extensive metabolizer; ER, estrogen receptor; HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; het, heterozygous; PM, poor metabolizer; POSH, Prospective study of Outcomes in Sporadic versus Hereditary breast cancer; PR, progesterone receptor; IM, intermediate metabolizer; UM, ultra rapid metabolizer.
  2. aRefers to test for differences between the three cohorts.