Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study participants in the training and validation set

From: Downregulated circulating microRNAs after surgery: potential noninvasive biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of early breast cancer

Variable

Training set

Validation set

P

No.

%

No.

%

Control group count

24

 

44

  

Age, years

≤50

13

54.17

25

56.82

0.833

>50

11

45.83

19

43.18

 

Menstruation

Pre-menopause

13

54.17

25

56.82

0.833

Post-menopause

11

45.83

19

43.18

 

Breast cancer group count

24

 

58

  

Age, years

≤50

13

54.17

27

46.55

0.53

>50

11

45.83

31

53.45

 

Menstruation

Pre-menopause

13

54.17

29

50

0.731

Post-menopause

11

45.83

29

50

 

Histologic tumor size (cm)

≤2

9

37.5

23

39.66

0.711

2–5

12

50

31

53.45

 

>5

3

12.5

4

6.89

 

Lymph nodes

Positive

16

66.67

30

51.72

0.215

Negative

8

33.33

28

48.28

 

Estrogen receptors

Positive

14

58.33

29

50

0.492

Negative

10

41.67

29

50

 

Progestogen receptors

Positive

14

58.33

29

50

0.492

Negative

10

41.67

29

50

 

HER2 status

Positive

12

50

24

41.38

0.474

Negative

12

50

34

58.62

 

Ki67 labeling index

≤14

1

4.17

6

10.34

0.362

>14

23

95.83

52

89.66

 

Histological grade

1

0

0

0

0

0.097

2

8

33.33

31

53.45

 

3

16

66.67

27

46.55