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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Aug;18(8):2214–2220. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0301

Table 1.

ER and PR status from different data sources among women ages 35 to 64 y with invasive breast cancer in the Women's CARE Study

Receptor status from a centralized pathology laboratory Receptor status from SEER registries
ER status ER− ER+
 ER− 316 (92%) 122 (17%)
 ER+ 28 (8%) 582 (83%)
 κ (95% CI) 0.70 (0.65−0.74)
PR status PR− PR+
 PR− 296 (83%) 121 (21%)
 PR+ 60 (17%) 449 (79%)
 κ (95% CI) 0.60 (0.55–0.65)
Joint ER/PR status ER−/PR− ER+/PR+ ER+/PR− ER−/PR+
 ER−/PR− 240 (90%) 48 (9%) 18 (20%) 36 (69%)
 ER+/PR+ 8 (3%) 392 (76%) 38 (43%) 8 (15%)
 ER+/PR− 8 (3%) 35 (7%) 29 (33%) 2 (4%)
 ER−/PR+ 10 (4%) 38 (8%) 3 (3%) 6 (12%)
 Overall κ (95% CI) 0.55 (0.51–0.59)
 ER−/PR− κ (95% CI) 0.69 (0.64–0.74)
 ER+/PR+ κ (95% CI) 0.62 (0.57–0.67)
 ER+/PR− κ (95% CI) 0.30 (0.20–0.40)
 ER−/PR+ κ (95% CI) 0.05 (−0.03 to 0.14)
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