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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 3.

Association between multivariate Cox survival models and breast cancer–specific survival with 10 year follow-up (A) Models of each biomarker and including Tumor (pT) and Nodal (pN) Stage (B) All ErbB biomarkers and including Tumor (pT) and Nodal (pN) Stage (C) Cluster groups from multiplexed AQUA scores with TNM staging variables.

A) Indivudual Models - Each AQUA biomarker + (pT, pN)
95% Confidence Interval
Variables Risk Ratio Lower Upper Effect (Chi-Square) p-value
AQUA-ER 0.987 0.978 0.996 8.132 0.004
AQUA-PR 0.985 0.974 0.995 8.543 0.003
AQUA-EGFR 1.011 1.001 1.021 4.387 0.036
AQUA-HER-2 1.017 1.007 1.026 10.540 0.001
AQUA-HER-3 1.012 1.001 1.022 4.520 0.034
AQUA-HER-4 1.006 0.988 1.021 0.478 0.489
B) All ErbB biomarkers + (pT, pN)
95% Confidence Intervals
Variables Risk Ratio Lower Upper Effect (Chi-Square) p-value
AQUA-EGFR 1.004 0.989 1.018 0.366 0.545
AQUA-HER-2 1.017 1.006 1.026 9.101 0.003
AQUA-HER-3 1.013 1.001 1.025 4.257 0.039
AQUA-HER-4 1.003 0.984 1.019 0.095 0.758
C) MultiplexAQUA + TNM
95% Confidence Intervals
Variables Risk Ratio Lower Upper Effect (Chi-Square) p-value
Cluster Group (all v. ErbB-low VI) 18.144 0.003
 ER[I] 0.629 0.429 0.892
 PR[II] 0.754 0.554 1.009
 HER-2/HER-3[III] 1.74 1.166 2.504
 EGFR/HER-3[IV] 1.383 0.996 1.88
 HER-3/HER-4[V] 0.993 0.605 1.533
Tumor Stage 26.686 >0.001
  [T2 v. T1] 2.072 1.474 2.931
  [T3 v. T2] 1.199 0.754 1.857
  [T4 v. T3] 1.025 0.548 1.868
Nodal Stage 24.07 >0.001
  [pN1 v. pN0] 1.743 1.199 2.529
  [pN2 v. pN1] 1.264 0.819 1.926
  [pN3 v. pN2] 1.249 0.763 2.036
Distant Metastasis 12.276 >0.001
  [M1 v. M0] 3.447 1.801 6.102