. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2014 Feb 28;144(3):625–634. doi: 10.1007/s10549-014-2882-1

Table 4.

Breast cancer-specific mortality by Hispanic nativity

Breast cancer subtype	U.S.-born Hispanic		Foreign-born Hispanic
Breast cancer subtype	Deaths	HR [95% CI]	Deaths	HR [95% CI]
HR+/HER2−	138	Ref.	207	Ref.
Triple negative	153	4.38 (3.23–5.95)	204	4.10 (3.20–5.26)
HR+/HER2+	66	1.57 (1.11–2.22)	67	0.93 (0.67–1.31)
HR−/HER2+	69	3.22 (2.25–4.61)	89	1.91 (1.41–2.58)

Notes. Cox models were adjusted for socioeconomic status (quintiles), Hispanic enclave (quintiles), age at diagnosis (continuous), marital status (married, never married, previously married), insurance status (private, public, uninsured, unknown), tumor size (continuous), lymph node (yes/no), tumor grade (low/high/unknown) and first course of treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy); AJCC stage levels I–IV and unknown was included as a stratifying variable. Bold text signifies statistically significant associations Abbreviations: Ref.=Referent category; HR=hazard ratio; CI=confidence interval.