Table 1 Baseline characteristics

From: Cisplatin shows greater efficacy than gemcitabine when combined with nab-paclitaxel in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer

Patient Characteristic

AP (n = 73)

AG (n = 84)

p-value

Median age, years (range)

49 (33–65)

50.5 (28–70)

0.647

Median follow-up, months

26.3

23.3

0.472

Amenorrhea

  

0.581

Premenopausal

29 (39.7)

36 (42.9)

 

Postmenopausal

44 (60.3)

48 (57.1)

 

Number of metastatic organ sites

  

0.014*

<2

15 (20.5)

6 (7.1)

 

≥2

58 (79.5)

78 (92.9)

 

Metastatic sites

Visceral

59 (80.8)

69 (82.1)

0.832

Lung

40 (54.8)

39 (46.4)

0.296

Liver

27 (37.0)

48 (57.1)

0.012*

Non-visceral

14 (19.2)

15 (17.9)

0.832

Subgroups

  

0.370

Luminal type

46 (63)

61 (72.6)

 

HER-2 positive

8 (11)

10 (11.9)

 

Triple-negative

16 (21.9)

12 (14.3)

 

Unknown

3 (4.1)

1 (1.2)

 

Lines of chemotherapy

  

0.012*

First line

36 (49.3)

59 (70.2)

 

Second line

28 (38.4)

15 (17.9)

 

Third line or more line

9 (12.3)

10 (11.9)

 

Prior chemotherapy

Anthracycline

57 (78.1)

68 (81.0)

0.66

Taxanes

43 (58.1)

55 (65.5)

0.40

  1. Abbreviations: AP, nab-paclitaxel plus cisplatin; AG, nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; HER-2, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2.