Table 3.
Breast cancer mortality. Events after 2 versus 5 years of tamoxifen treatment.
| Years after surgery | TAM 2 yrs (n = 2105) |
TAM 5 yrs (n = 2019) |
HR 5 vs 2 yrs |
95% CI | SHR 5 vs 2 yrs |
95% CI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of events | ||||||
| ≥2 | 568 | 515 | 0.89 | 0.79–1.00 | 0.92 | 0.81–1.03 |
| 2–5 | 133 | 117 | 0.91 | 0.71–1.16 | 0.91 | 0.71–1.17 |
| 5–15 | 341 | 283 | 0.80 | 0.68–0.94 | 0.82 | 0.70–0.96 |
| 15 – | 94 | 115 | 1.20 | 0.92–1.58 | 1.13 | 0.86–1 .49 |
CI = confidence interval; HR = hazard ratio; SHR = subhazard ratio; TAM = tamoxifen.