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Table 2 Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional analyses of distant-metastasis-free survival

From: Risk estimation of distant metastasis in node-negative, estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer patients using an RT-PCR based prognostic expression signature

  

Univariate analysis

Multivariate analysis

Study

Variable

Hazard ratio

(95% CI)

p-value

Hazard ratio

(95% CI)

p-value

Training set

(untreated set)

14-gene signature

4.34 (1.86–10.1)

0.001

3.16 (1.27–7.87)

0.014

 

Age

1.00 (0.97–1.03)

0.853

1.00 (0.97–1.03)

0.956

 

Tumor size

1.91 (1.00–3.63)

0.050

1.41 (0.68–2.91)

0.353

 

Grade 2

2.21 (1.05–4.70)

0.038

1.45 (0.65–3.22)

0.360

 

Grade 3

1.72 (0.22–13.3)

0.604

0.72 (0.09–6.00)

0.759

Validation set

(untreated set)

14-gene signature

4.71 (2.33–9.51)

<0.0001

4.02 (1.91–8.44)

0.0002

 

Age

1.03 (1.00–1.05)

0.024

1.02 (0.99–1.04)

0.193

 

Tumor size

1.75 (1.25–2.46)

0.001

1.37 (0.95–2.00)

0.092

 

Grade 2

2.43 (1.10–5.40)

0.029

1.25 (0.55–2.87)

0.592

 

Grade 3

3.01 (1.23–7.39)

0.016

1.11 (0.43–2.87)

0.833

Tam-treated set

14-gene signature

3.61 (0.86–15.1)

0.079

3.50 (0.58–21.2)

0.172

 

Age

1.04 (0.98–1.10)

0.241

1.06 (0.98–1.14)

0.166

 

Tumor grade

1.50 (0.50–4.49)

0.468

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