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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Aug 1;116(15):3558–3568. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25153

Table 7.

Risk of Death from Any Cancer for Men with Invasive Breast Cancer and for Men with Estrogen Receptor Positive Invasive Tumors

Invasive tumors ER positive/borderline tumors
95% CI
95% CI
p-value HR LL UL p-value HR LL UL
Tumor Size <0.0001 <0.0001
 <2 cm 1.0 1.0
 2-5 cm 10.7 2.5 45.7 16.3 2.1 125.5
 5+ cm 84.2 17.6 402.4 107.5 12.1 956
Nodal status 0.16 0.19
 Positive 1.0 1.0
 Negative/other 0.6 0.2 1.2 0.5 0.2 1.4
ER status 0.30 --
 Positive/borderline 1.0
 Negative/other 1.6 0.7 3.6
Age 0.18 0.57
 <50 1.0 1.0
 50-59 2.0 0.5 7.8 1.5 0.3 7.3
 60-69 4.4 1.2 15.8 2.4 0.6 9.8
 70-79 3.9 0.9 16.7 3.0 0.6 14.7
 80+ 4.6 0.9 23.2 4.9 0.7 33.3
Race/ethnicity 0.31 0.54
 Non-hispanic White 1.0 1.0
 Non-hispanic Black 0.4 0.1 1.3 0.5 0.1 1.8
 Other 0.9 0.3 2.7 1.0 0.3 3.8
Marital Status 0.08 0.04
 Married 1.0 1.0
 Not married 1.8 0.9 3.5 2.3 1.03 5.1
Chemotherapy 0.63 0.93
 Yes 1.0 1.0
 No/ unknown 1.2 0.6 2.3 1.0 0.4 2.6
Tamoxifen/ Aromatase inhibitors -- 0.04
 Neither 1.0
 Any tamoxifen 0.4 0.1 0.99
 Aromatase inhibitors only 1.2 0.4 3.8