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. 2010 Jun 24;12(3):R42. doi: 10.1186/bcr2596

Table 1.

Patient and tumor characteristics for the 359 tumors

Number of tumors 359
Number of primary tumors 346
Number of primary BRCA1-mutated tumors 17
Number of primary BRCA2-mutated tumors 31
Number of primary familial non-BRCA1/2 tumors 126
Tumor size
 ≤20 mm 145 (45%)
 > 20 mm 175 (55%)
 Mean size mm (SD) 25.8 (15)
Histologic grading
 Grade 1 26 (11%)
 Grade 2 100 (43%)
 Grade 3 106 (46%)
Estrogen-receptor status
 Positive 227 (66%)
 Negative 119 (34%)
Progesterone-receptor status
 Positive 194 (57%)
 Negative 149 (43%)
Lymph-node status
 Negative 190 (58%)
 Positive 137 (42%)
Age
 Median age, years (range) 49 (27-88)
 < 50 years 182 (51%)
 ≥ 50 years 174 (49%)
Classification according to Hu et al. [4]
 Basal-like 79 (22%)
 Normal-like 34 (9%)
 HER2-enriched 34 (9%)
 Luminal A 95 (26%)
 Luminal B 70 (19%)
 Unclassified 47 (13%)
Overall survival
 Median overall survival in years (range) 8.1 (0.24-32)
  Median overall survival in years for patients still alive (range) 12.8 (1.55-20.2)

Survival is given for the 346 patients from whom primary tumors were available.