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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2009 Jun 1;115(11):2400–2409. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24277

Table 2.

Association between continuous AQUA scores and breast cancer–specific survival by Cox univariate analysis with 10 year follow-up

Univariate Cox Proportional Hazard Models
95% Confidence Intervals
Variables Risk Ratio Lower Upper Effect (Chi-Square) p-value
AQUA-ER 0.989 0.980 0.997 6.686 0.010
AQUA-PR 0.986 0.975 0.995 9.178 0.002
AQUA-EGFR 1.009 0.999 1.018 3.408 0.065
AQUA-HER-2 1.017 1.008 1.026 10.959 0.001
AQUA-HER-3 1.016 1.006 1.026 9.076 0.003
AQUA-HER-4 1.000 0.985 1.013 0.002 0.969
Age at Diagnosis 0.998 0.988 1.009 0.087 0.768
Tumor Stage 41.307 0.000
 [T2 v. T1] 2.080 1.519 2.865
 [T3 v. T2] 1.593 1.055 2.347
 [T4 v. T3] 0.844 0.471 1.469
Nodal Stage 60.145 0.000
 [pN1 v. pN0] 2.262 1.623 3.146
 [pN2 v. pN1] 1.273 0.872 1.843
 [pN3 v. pN2] 1.314 0.855 2.007
Distant Metastasis 28.735 0.000
[M1 v. M0] 4.646 2.837 7.185
Nuclear Grade 14.683 0.001
 [2 v. 1] 1.214 0.834 1.813
 [3 v. 2] 1.626 1.211 2.175