Table 2. Baseline characteristics by breast cancer subtypes.
| Characteristics | n | Luminal A |
Luminal B |
HER2 |
Triple-negative |
P | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Age (years) | ||||||||||
| ≤50 | 768 | 489 | 51.2 | 99 | 57.9 | 52 | 45.2 | 128 | 43.1 | 0.009 |
| >50 | 770 | 466 | 48.8 | 72 | 42.1 | 63 | 54.8 | 169 | 56.9 | |
| Tumor size (cm) | ||||||||||
| ≤2 | 822 | 543 | 57.0 | 75 | 43.9 | 66 | 57.9 | 138 | 46.5 | 0.001 |
| >2 | 713 | 410 | 43.0 | 96 | 56.1 | 48 | 42.1 | 159 | 53.5 | |
| Unknown | 3 | |||||||||
| Lymph nodes | ||||||||||
| Positive | 633 | 395 | 42.0 | 73 | 42.9 | 48 | 42.1 | 117 | 40.1 | 0.927 |
| Negative | 884 | 546 | 58.0 | 97 | 57.1 | 66 | 57.9 | 175 | 59.9 | |
| Unknown | 21 | |||||||||
| Adjuvant therapy | ||||||||||
| C | 684 | 334 | 35.8 | 59 | 35.3 | 79 | 71.2 | 212 | 72.4 | <0.001 |
| C+E | 579 | 431 | 46.2 | 85 | 50.9 | 23 | 20.7 | 40 | 13.7 | <0.001 |
| E | 195 | 152 | 16.3 | 20 | 12.0 | 2 | 1.8 | 21 | 7.2 | <0.001 |
| No treatment | 45 | 15 | 1.6 | 3 | 1.8 | 7 | 6.3 | 20 | 6.8 | <0.001 |
| Unavailable | 35 | |||||||||
C: chemotherapy; E: endocrine therapy; C+E: chemothrapy plus endocrine therapy.