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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2011 Jun 28;22(9):1319–1331. doi: 10.1007/s10552-011-9805-9

Table 3.

Select clinical prognostic factors by race/ethnicity, After Breast Cancer Pooling Projecta

Non-Hispanic White (n=12,015) Non-Hispanic Black (n=357) Hispanic (n=387) Asian American (n=292) Chinese (n=4,886)




n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
TNM Stage
 I 5,698 (49.5) 126 (36.5) 145 (38.3) 134 (47.0) 1,679 (36.1)
 II 4,059 (35.3) 161 (46.7) 182 (48.0) 121 (42.5) 2,209 (47.4)
 III 1,515 (13.2) 53 (15.4) 51 (13.5) 29 (10.2) 740 (15.9)
 IV 239 (2.1) 5 (1.5) 1 (0.3) 1 (0.4) 28 (0.6)
 Missing 504 12 8 7 230
ER/PR status
 ER+/PR+ 6,521 (63.6) 142 (46.9) 229 (63.1) 190 (69.1) 2,439 (51.0)
 ER+/PR− 1,582 (15.4) 48 (15.8) 40 (11.0) 38 (13.8) 635 (13.3)
 ER−/PR+ 338 (3.3) 16 (5.3) 14 (3.9) 10 (3.6) 362 (7.6)
 ER−/PR− 1,810 (17.7) 97 (32.0) 80 (22.0) 37 (13.5) 1,350 (28.2)
 Missing 1,764 54 24 17 100
HER2
 Positive 532 (11.7) 33 (15.6) 37 (13.5) 41 (20.4) 837 (30.5)
 Negative 3,736 (82.1) 164 (77.4) 225 (82.1) 155 (77.1) 1,689 (61.4)
 Indeterminate 284 (6.2) 15 (7.1) 12 (4.4) 5 (2.5) 223 (8.1)
 Missing 7,463 145 113 91 2,137
Chemotherapyb
 No 4,716 (48.4) 104 (33.9) 125 (34.8) 93 (33.3) 382 (7.8)
 Yes 5,027 (51.6) 203 (66.1) 234 (65.2) 186 (66.7) 4,504 (92.2)
 Missing 2,272 50 28 13 0
Radiotherapy
 No 4,030 (40.6) 111 (35.9) 140 (38.8) 124 (44.9) 3,286 (67.3)
 Yes 5,897 (59.4) 198 (64.1) 221 (61.2) 152 (55.1) 1,600 (32.8)
 Missing 2,088 48 26 16 0
Endocrine therapyb
 No 3,392 (32.3) 123 (39.2) 103 (28.3) 63 (22.5) 2,315 (47.5)
 Yes 7,103 (67.7) 191 (60.8) 261 (71.7) 217 (77.5) 2,555 (52.5)
 Missing 1,520 43 23 12 16
a

Table excludes 371 women of other races/ethnicities.

b

Based on one measure at baseline/first post-diagnosis survey.