Triple negative breast carcinoma is a prognostic factor in Taiwanese women

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Table 2 Prognostic factors for 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival in univariate Cox regression analysis

Features	DFS			Overall Survival
	HR	95% CI	p-Value	HR	95% CI	p-Value
Age	1.00	0.99–1.01	0.9859	1.03	1.01–1.04	0.0018
Menopausal status
(Postmenopausal vs. Premenopausal)	1.04	0.76–1.42	0.8132	1.51	0.98–2.33	0.0623
Tumor size, cm	1.22	1.16–1.29	<0.0001	1.20	1.11–1.31	<0.0001
Lymph node
(Positive vs. Negative)	3.08	2.14–4.42	<0.0001	2.83	1.71–4.68	<0.0001
Metastasis
(Yes vs. No)	4.25	2.22–8.11	<0.0001	9.40	4.78–18.49	<0.0001
Grade
(III vs. I ~II)	1.71	1.23–2.38	0.0014	2.03	1.31–3.16	0.0017
Stage
(≥ II vs. < II)	3.03	1.87–4.94	<0.0001	2.53	1.33–4.84	0.0048
ER status
(Negative vs. Positive)	2.26	1.64–3.12	<0.0001	3.08	1.98–4.79	<0.0001
PgR status
(Negative vs. Positive)	1.95	1.40–2.70	<0.0001	2.35	1.50–3.68	0.0002
HER2 overexpression status
(Negative vs. Positive)	1.97	1.41–2.75	<0.0001	1.56	0.99–2.46	0.058
Tumor subgroups
(TNBC vs. non-TNBC)	1.43	0.99–2.06	0.0570	1.99	1.26–3.13	0.0031

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