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Table 3 Clinicopathological characteristics of node negative breast cancer patients (fresh frozen tissue) from the Transbig cohort (n=280)

From: Expression of aurora kinase A is associated with metastasis-free survival in node-negative breast cancer patients

Characteristics

n

%

Age at diagnosis

  

<50

158

56.4

≥50

122

43.5

pT stage

  

≤2cm

107

38.2

>2cm

173

61.8

Histological grade

  

G I+II

165100

58.9

G III

15

35.7

not documented

 

5.4

Estrogen receptor

  

RNA expression low

79

28.2

RNA expression high

201

71.8

Progesterone receptor

  

RNA expression low

156

55.7

RNA expression high

124

43.3

Hormone receptor status1

  

Negative

  

Positive

78

27.9

 

202

72.1

HER2 status

  

RNA expression low

245

87.5

RNA expression high

35

12.5

Metastasis

  

Yes

72

74.3

No

208

25.7

  1. Estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and HER-2 status were derived from the gene array data. Cutpoints were 8.2 for the estrogen receptor, 10.2 for HER-2, and 4.5 for the progesterone receptor. Log2 transformed gene array data have been used.
  2. 1The hormone receptor status is positive when either the estrogen or progesterone receptor RNA expression is high.