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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 16.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Oncol. 2009 Dec 10;11(1):55–65. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(09)70314-6

Table 2.

Disease-Free Survival Hazard Ratios Adjusted for Number of positive nodes for Chemotherapy Benefit by Recurrence Score over Time

All Years First 5 years After 5 years
Modeled HR estimates HR 95% CI HR 95% CI HR 95% CI
 Nodes (4+) 2.44 1.75–3.42 2.49 1.58–3.92 2.37 1.44–3.91
 Chemotherapy at RS=0 1.12 0.61–2.06 1.58 0.66–3.76 0.78 0.34–1.83
 RS/50 (50 point difference) 2.71 1.37–5.36 5.77 2.42–13.79 0.92 0.30–2.83
 Chemo* RS/50 0.43 0.18–1.01 0.30 0.10–0.89 0.66 0.16–2.82
 Interaction p-value (0.053 ) - (0.029) - (0.58) -
Treatment effect overall* HR 95% CI HR 95% CI HR 95% CI
Entire RS sample 0.72 0.51 – 1.00 0.79 0.51–1.23 0.63 0.39–1.04
At selected RS values
 RS = 10 0.95 0.59–1.52 1.24 0.62–2.48 0.72 0.38–1.36
 RS = 18 0.83 0.56–1.22 1.03 0.58–1.81 0.67 0.40–1.14
 RS = 25 0.74 0.53–1.04 0.87 0.53–1.42 0.64 0.39–1.05
 RS = 31 0.67 0.48–0.93 0.75 0.48–1.18 0.61 0.35–1.04
 RS = 40 0.57 0.39–0.83 0.61 0.38–0.96 0.56 0.28–1.11
*

Benefit in disease-free survival of CAF added to tamoxifen versus tamoxifen alone