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. 2007 Aug 19;5:93. doi: 10.1186/1477-7819-5-93

Table 3.

Associations of patient and tumor characteristics with the disease free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) rates.

Variable 5-year DFS rate (%) P-value 5-year OS rate P-value
Age 0.745 0.319
≤50 years 74.3 76.1
>50 years 74.1 61.9
Tumor 0.002 0.001
pT1 83.4 81.9
Other (pT2+ pT3+pT4) 69.0 61.7
Node 0.0001 0.004
pN0 85.1 79.5
pN1+pN2+pN3 66.0 61.4
Nuclear Grade 0.007 0.032
1+2 76.4 70.5
3 67.7 66.7
Histologic Grade 0.080 0.093
1+2 78.9 75.9
3 67.2 61.2
Estrogen receptor status 0.030 0.016
ER-positive 78.1 74.3
ER-negative 64.6 59.1
Progesterone receptor status 0.331 0.567
PR-positive 79.0 71.1
PR-negative 71.4 68.2
Lymphovascular invasion 0.088 0.058
Yes 69.2 63.5
No 74.7 70.6
TLI status 0.353 0.084
Low TLI 76.9 75.4
High TLI 72.4 64.8