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Table 1 Characteristics of hormone receptor-positive patients, eligible and non-eligible for RS assessment

From: The 21-gene Recurrence Score® assay predicts distant recurrence in lymph node-positive, hormone receptor-positive, breast cancer patients treated with adjuvant sequential epirubicin- and docetaxel-based or epirubicin-based chemotherapy (PACS-01 trial)

Characteristics, n (%)

PACS-01 (n = 1610)

Eligible (n = 530)

Non-eligible (n = 1080)

p

FEC-D

820 (50.9)

268 (50.6)

552 (51.1)

0.84

Age ≥ 50 years

809 (50.2)

250 (47.2)

559 (51.8)

0.08

Mastectomy

708 (44.0)

215 (40.6)

493 (45.6)

0.053

≥ 4 positive nodes

595 (37.0)

210 (39.6)

385 (35.6)

0.12

Tumor size > 20 mm

701 (47.7)

244 (49.3)

457 (46.9)

0.28

 Missing

141

35

106

 

Ductal carcinoma

1204 (74.8)

381 (71.9)

823 (76.2)

0.06

SBR grade

   

0.31

 Grade 1

216 (14.4)

76 (15.3)

140 (14.0)

 

 Grade 2

788 (52.5)

251 (50.4)

537 (53.6)

 

 Grade 3

496 (33.1)

171 (34.3)

325 (32.4)

 

 Missing

110

32

78

 

Ki-67 expression ≥14% [19]

270 (36.7)

198 (40.5)

72 (29.1)

0.003

 Missing

874

41

833

 

HER2-positive

81 (9.7)

46 (8.8)

35 (11.3)

0.23

 Missing

776

5

771

 

Hormone receptor by IHC

 ER+

1493 (92.7)

506 (95.5)

987 (91.4)

0.003

 PgR+

1186 (73.7)

355 (67.0)

831 (76.9)

<  0.001

  ER+/PgR+

1069 (66.4)

331 (62.5)

738 (68.3)

<  0.001

  ER+/PgR-

424 (26.3)

175 (33.0)

249 (23.1)

 

  ER-/PgR+

117 (7.3)

24 (4.5)

93 (8.6)

 
  1. DFS disease-free survival, FEC-D 3 cycles of FEC (6 cycles of 5-fluorouracil 500 mg/m2, epirubicin 100 mg/m2, cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2) followed by 3 cycles of docetaxel 100 mg/m2, FEC100 6 cycles of 5-fluorouracil 500 mg/m2, epirubicin 100 mg/m2, cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2, SBR Scarff–Bloom Richardson, IHC immunohistochemistry, ER estrogen receptor, PgR progesterone receptor