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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2014 Apr 11;145(2):389–399. doi: 10.1007/s10549-014-2945-3

Table 3.

Patient and tumor characteristics of patients who were metastatic at primary diagnosis or who developed recurrent disease stratified by PIK3CA mutation status.

Characteristic Total cohort
(N = 197)
Wild type
(N= 135)
PIK3CA Mutated
(N = 62)
P value*
N (%) N (%) N (%)
Age
≤ 50 84 (43%) 67 (50%) 17 (27%)
> 50 96 (49%) 54 (40%) 42 (68%) < 0.001
Unknown 17 (9%) 14 (10%) 3 (5%)
Menopausal status
Pre 43 (46%) 31 (23%) 12 (19%)
Post 48 (51%) 27 (20%) 21 (34%) 0.12
Unknown 3 (3%) 77 (57%) 29 (47%)
Race
Caucasian 170 (86%) 115 (85%) 55 (89%)
Black 15 (8%) 12 (9%) 3 (5%)
Unknown or other 12 (6%) 8 (6%) 4 (6%)
Tumor size
0 –2 cm 46 (23%) 34 (25%) 12 (19%)
2.1 –5 cm 54 (27%) 36 (27%) 18 (29%)
> 5 cm 14 (7%) 11 (8%) 3 (5%) 0.65
Unknown or NA 83 (42%) 54 (40%) 29 (47%)
Positive lymph nodes
0 56 (28%) 35 (26%) 21 (34%)
1 –3 53 (27%) 35 (26%) 18 (29%)
> 3 50 (25%) 38 (28%) 12 (19%) 0.31
Unknown or NA 38 (19%) 27 (20%) 11 (18%)
Histologic subtype
Ductal 176 (93%) 120 (93%) 56 (92%)
Lobular 10 (5%) 7 (5%) 3 (5%)
Other 4 (2%) 2 (2%) 2 (3%) 0.715
Histologic Grade
Low 19 (10%) 10 (7%) 9 (15%)
Intermediate 82 (42%) 49 (36%) 33 (53%)
High 89 (45%) 70 (52%) 19 (31%) 0.01
Unknown or NA 7 (4%) 6 (4%) 1 (2%)
ER
Postive 137 (70%) 88 (65%) 49 (79%)
Negative 49 (25%) 41 (30%) 8 (13%) 0.011
Unknown 11 (6%) 68 (50%) 5 (8%)
PR
Positive 114 (58%) 75 (56%) 39 (63%)
Negative 69 (35%) 52 (39%) 17 (27%) 0.17
Unknown 14 (7%) 4 (3%) 6 (10%)
HER2
positive 29 (15%) 23 (17%) 6 (10%)
negative 143 (73%) 98 (73%) 45 (73%) 0.18
Intermediate or Unknown 25 (13%) 14 (10%) 11 (18%)
Receptor status
ER+ or PR+/HER2− 110 (56%) 71 (53%) 39 (63%)
ER+ or PR+/HER2+ 17 (9%) 14 (10%) 3 (5%)
ER−and PR−/HER2+ 11 (6%) 9 (7%) 2 (3%)
ER−and PR−/HER2− 33 (17%) 27 (20%) 6 (10%)
Other 26 (13%) 14 (10%) 12 (19%) 0.081
Clinical trial participant
yes 62 (31%) 38 (28%) 24 (39%)
No 133 (68%) 95 (70%) 38 (61%) 0.16
Unknown 2 (1%) 2 (1%) 0 (0%)
PI3K specific trial
yes 40 (20%) 17 (13%) 23 (37%)
No 22 (11%) 21 (16%) 1 (2%) < 0.001
NA 135 (69%) 97 (72%) 38 (62%)
Metastatic at diagnosis
yes 44 (22%)
No 151 (77%)
Unknown 2 (1%)

Note: "Unknown," "other," or "NA" not included in p value calculation.