Table 1.

Clinical and pathological information of the cohort

Groupings	Sample numbers
Nodal status	Node negative, n = 65		Node positive, n = 55
Grade	Grade 1, n = 23	Grade 2, n = 41	Grade 3, n = 56
Histology	Ductal, n = 94	Lobular, n = 14	Others, n = 12
TNM staging	TNM1, n = 69	TNM2, n = 40	TNM3, n = 7	TNM4, n = 4
Clin. outcome	Disease free, n = 81	With Metastasis, n = 7	With local recur., n = 5	Died of breast Cancer, n = 20	Died of unrelated diseases, n = 7