Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2011 Feb 8;117(16):3814–3823. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25956

Table 7.

Association between BMI and Cancer Clincopathological Features of Breast Cancer

Obesity Over weight Normal P-value
N (%) N (%) N (%)
Subtype
ER+/PR+/HER2− (n=76) 47 (61.8) 18 (23.7) 11 (14.5) 0.876
ER+/PR+/HER2+ (n=18) 13 (72.2) 4 (22.2) 1 (5.6)
ER−/PR−/HER2+ (n=30) 17 (56.7) 9 (30.0) 4 (13.3)
ER−/PR−/HER2− (n=61) 36 (59.0) 18 (29.5) 7 (11.5)
ER/PR status
ER/PR positive (n=116) 73 (62.9) 29 (25.0) 14 (12.1) 0.595
ER/PR negative (n=92) 53 (57.6) 28 (30.4) 11 (12.0)
HER2 status
HER2 negative (n=137) 83 (60.6) 36 (26.3) 18 (13.1) 0.696
HER2 positive (n=48) 30 (62.5) 13 (27.1) 5 (10.4)
Tumor size
T0/Tis/T1 (n=51) 30 (23.4) 15 (25.9) 6 (25.0) 0.538
T2 (n=95) 58 (45.3) 24 (41.4) 13 (54.2)
T3/T4 (n=64) 40 (31.3) 19 (32.8) 5 (20.8)
Lymph node
Negative (n=81) 50 (40.3) 26 (44.8) 5 (21.7) 0.292
Positive (n=124) 74 (59.7) 32 (55.2) 18 (78.3)
Stage
0–II (n=143) 81 (62.8) 43 (72.9) 19 (79.2) 0.062
III–IV (n=69) 48 (37.2) 16 (27.1) 5 (20.8)