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. 2013 Jun 20;15(3):R47. doi: 10.1186/bcr3439

Table 1.

Subjects' clinical characteristics at baseline.

Placebo
(25)
Raloxifene
(50)
Tamoxifen
(50)
Age
(Lower-upper quartile)
44
(42-47)
46
(42-49)
45
(41-49)

Age at menarche
(Lower-upper quartile)
13
(12-13)
12
(12-13)
12
(11-14)

Parity 1 2 2

Family history1
BC°- OC°°
5 - 1 15 - 1 11 - 3

Body mass index
(Lower-upper quartile)
22.9
(21.7-26.2)
22.2
(20.5-24.6)
22.2
(20.3-25.2)

Smoking
Never/former/current/
missing
14/3/8/0 28/10/11/1 24/5/21/0

Tumor size mm
(Lower-upper quartile)
22.0 (15-30) 22.5 (15.0-28.5) 21.5 (15.0-27.5)

Tumor grade
1/2/3/unknown2
7/7/5/6 3/23/7/17 3/22/8/17

HER2 overexpression %
No/yes
96/4 98/2 94/6

Luminal subtype %
A/B HER2 neg/B HER2 pos
36/60/4 20/78/2 27/67/3

1First or second degree relatives with °breast cancer (BC) or °°ovarian cancer (OC); 2not graded by the pathologist.