Skip to main content
. 2008 Sep 29;10(5):R80. doi: 10.1186/bcr2149

Table 2.

Patient characteristics: metastatic disease

Characteristic n (%)
Menopausal status

 Premenopausal 5 (31)

 Postmenopausal 9 (56)

 Unknown 2 (13)

Disease sites

 1 1 (6)

 2 7 (44)

 3 6 (38)

 ≥ 4 2 (12)

Predominantly visceral disease

 Yes 3 (19)

 No 13 (81)

Line of treatment

 0 3 (19)

 1 6 (37)

 2 3 (19)

 ≥- 3 4 (25)

ER/PR tumor status

 Positive 11 (69)

 Negative 5 (31)

HER2 tumor status

 Positivea 5 (31)

 Negative 11(69)

EGFR tumor status

 Positive 1(6)

 Negative 9 (56)

 Unknown 6 (38)

aA score +3 or fluorescence in situ hybridization positive. EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; ER, estrogen receptor; HER, human epidermal growth factor receptor; PR, progesterone receptor.