Table 4

Prognosis of the clusters identified in the training and validation sets

Cohort

Risk cluster
P valuea






Total
Low
Medium
High


Training set
     Stockholm
n
159
49
51
59


5-year eventb
38 (24%)
2 (4.2%)
7 (14%)
29 (49%)
<10-7
Treated with adjuvant therapy
     Stockholm tamoxifen only
Nc
104
38
33
33


5-year event
22 (21%)
0 (0%)
6 (18%)
16 (48%)
<10-6
     Uppsala node-positive
n
76
14
27
35


5-year event
33 (43%)
2 (14%)
10 (37%)
21 (60%)
0.002
Untreated with adjuvant therapy
     Stockholm
nc
33
7
10
16


5-year event
11
1 (14%)
0 (0%)
11 (69%)
0.002
     Uppsala node-negative
n
135
51
55
29


5-year event
17 (12%)
3 (5.8%)
7 (13%)
7 (24%)
0.02
     Van't veer
n
78d
19
33
25


5-year event
33
2 (17%)
18 (53%)
13 (55%)
0.01

aP value for trend test.

bDistant metastases or death within 5 years.

cSubset of the Stockholm cohort: 82 patients with tamoxifen 2–5 years, eight patients with tamoxifen <2 years, nine patients with tamoxifen in sequence with megesterolacetat, and five patients with tamoxifen and goserelin.

dOne patient was removed because of missing data. The 5-year event was distant metastases within 5 years.

Pawitan et al. Breast Cancer Research 2005 7:R953   doi:10.1186/bcr1325

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