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Table 1 Main characteristic of study patients (N = 200)

From: The prognostic value of stromal and epithelial periostin expression in human breast cancer: correlation with clinical pathological features and mortality outcome

 

No. of patients (%)

Age at surgery, years

 Median (range)

58 (31–84)

Menopausal status

 Pre-menopausal

63 (31.5)

 Post- menopausal

137 (68.5)

Tumour size: cm in diameter

 ≤ 2

94 (47.0)

 > 2

106 (53.0)

Nodal status

 Node-negative

105 (52.5)

 Node-positive

95 (47.5)

ER status

 Poor (<10 % of stained cells)

42 (21.0)

 Rich (≥10 % of stained cells)

158 (79.0)

PgR status

 Poor (<10 % of stained cells)

86 (43.0)

 Rich (≥10 % of stained cells)

114 (57.0)

Ki-67

 Low (<14 % of stained cells)

91 (45.5)

 High (≥14 % of stained cells)

109 (54.5)

HER2 status

 Negative

183 (91.5)

 Positive

17 (8.5)

Phenotypea

 Luminal A

64 (32.0)

 Luminal B (HER2-neg)

85 (42.5)

 Luminal B (HER2-pos)

9 (4.5)

 HER2 positive (non luminal)

8 (4.0)

 Triple negative

34 (17.0)

Adjuvant systemic therapyb

 No

87 (43.5)

 Yes

113 (56.5)

  1. adefinition of intrinsic subtypes of breast cancer according to [23]
  2. beither chemotherapy or endocrine therapy or both