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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2013 Aug 15;22(10):1853–1861. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-0560

Table 2.

Distribution of Breast Cancer Tumor Subtypes in the Ella Study by Country

Tumor subtype No. of patients (%)
Total n = 1041 US n = 559 Mexico n = 482
ER 347 (33.3) 152 (27.2) 195 (40.5)
ER+ 694 (66.7) 407 (72.8) 287 (59.5)
PR 408 (39.8) 209 (37.8) 199 (42.2)
PR+ 617 (60.2) 344 (62.2) 273 (57.8)
PR unknown 16 6 10
luminal A 571 (59.8) 330 (61.2) 241 (57.9)
HER2 735 (72.6) 410 (74.6) 325 (70.2)
HER2+ 225 (22.2) 131 (23.8) 94 (20.3)
HER2 equivocal 53 (5.23) 9 (1.64) 44 (9.50)
HER2+a 225 (23.6) 131 (24.3) 94 (22.6)
HER2 unknown 28 9 19
TNBC 159 (16.7) 78 (14.5) 81 (19.5)
Subtype unknown 86 20 66

Abbreviations: ER, estrogen receptor; HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; luminal A, hormone receptor; PR, progesterone receptor; TNBC, triple negative breast cancer; US, United States.

a

Excludes women with equivocal immunohistochemistry scores.