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Table 4 Univariate analysis of factors affecting RFS of patients with adjuvant therapy

From: KIBRA; a novel biomarker predicting recurrence free survival of breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant therapy

Clinico-pathological feature

Chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

p value (HR;CI)

p value (HR;CI)

Age (≤35, 36–60, > 60 years)

0.598 (0.919; 0.670–1.260)

0.979 (1.011; 0.463–2.205)

Nottingham grade

0.052 (1.290; 0.998–1.668)

0.010 (2.355; 1.225–4.526)

Tumour size (< 2, 2–5, > 5 cm)

0.109 (1.249; 0.952–1.640)

0.320 (1.413; 0.713–2.806)

Presence or absence of lymph node metastasis

0.002 (0.575; 0.408–0.809)

0.467 (0.739; 0.327–1.669)

Lymph node stage

< 0.001 (1.370; 1.183–1.587)

0.096 (1.370; 0.946–1.984)

TNM stage

< 0.001 (1.792; 1.399–2.296)

0.036 (1.884; 1.041–3.408)

Lympho-vascular invasion

0.061 (0.856; 0.727–1.007)

0.014 (0.604; 0.404–0.902)

ER expression

0.031 (1.468; 1.036–2.079)

PgR expression

0.007 (1.608; 1.137–2.274)

HER2 over-expression

0.016 (0.789; 0.651–0.956)

0.003 (0.484; 0.302–0.777)

KIBRA – 4 groups

0.231 (1.098; 0.942–1.279)

0.166 (1.279; 0.903–1.813)

KIBRA-low

0.019 (0.649; 0.451–0.932)

0.025 (0.389; 0.170–0.890)

Molecular subtype

0.078 (1.092; 0.990–1.203)

0.063 (1.489; 0.979–2.264)

Ki 67 ≥ 14% cells

0.546 (0.875; 0.566–1.351)

0.245 (0.558; 0.209–1.492)

  1. p, significance; ER, estrogen expression; PgR, progesterone expression; HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor2; KIBRA-low, low expression of KIBRA in both cytoplasm and nucleus