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. 2014 Feb 5;9(2):e88525. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088525

Table 1. Clinico-pathological features of the considered series.

Total (n = 678) TNBC (n = 396) Core Basal (n = 236) 5NP (n = 143) p-value (Core Basal vs 5NP) Non-TNBC (n = 276) p-value (TNBC vs non-TNBC)
Age (mean±SD) 54.9±13.2 53.8±13.4 54.9±13.9 53.4±12.7 n.s. 56.4±12.8 n.s.
Race n.s. n.s.
Whyte 511 (75.4%) 332 (83.8%) 194 (82.2%) 125 (87.4%) 175 (63.4%)
African American 153 (22.6%) 55 (13.9%) 36 (15.3%) 15 (10.5%) 96 (34.8%)
Others 12 (1.8%) 7 (1.8%) 4 (1.7%) 3 (2.1%) 5 (1.8%)
Missing 2 (0.3%) 2 (0.5%) 2 (0.8%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Histotype n.s. n.s.
ductal 506 (74.6%) 311 (78.5%) 194 (82.2%) 104 (72.7%) 191 (69.2%)
lobular 44 (6.5%) 10 (2.5%) 2 (0.8%) 7 (4.9%) 33 (12.0%)
others 121 (17.8%) 68 (17.2%) 39 (16.5%) 26 (18.2%) 52 (18.8%)
missing 7 (1.0%) 7 (1.7%) 1 (0.4%) 6 (4.2%) 0 (0.0%)
Stage n.s. n.s.
I 164 (24.2%) 114 (28.8%) 60 (25.4%) 48 (33.6%) 50 (18.1%)
II 323 (47.6%) 196 (49.5%) 119 (50.4%) 68 (47.6%) 124 (44.9%)
III 110 (16.2%) 66 (16.7%) 43 (18.2%) 21 (14.7%) 42 (15.2%)
IV 6 (0.9%) 5 (1.3%) 3 (1.3%) 2 (1.4%) 1 (0.4%)
Missing 75 (11.1%) 15 (3.8%) 10 (4.2%) 4 (2.8%) 59 (21.4%)
Grading n.s. <0.001
G1 37 (5.5%) 7 (1.8%) 2 (0.8%) 5 (3.5%) 30 (10.9%)
G2 137 (20.2%) 38 (9.6%) 23 (9.7%) 12 (8.4%) 97 (35.1%)
G3 481 (70.9%) 345 (87.1%) 206 (87.3%) 125 (87.4%) 133 (48.2%)
missing 23 (3.4%) 6 (1.5%) 5 (2.1%) 1 (0.7%) 16 (5.6%)