Figure 3.
Association between MBC histologic subtype and outcome. (A) Association between breast cancer-specific survival and MBC histologic subtypes (matrix producing carcinoma (77 cases; upper purple), squamous (74 patients; upper middle green), mixed squamous and spindle (41 patients; lower middle grey) and spindle carcinoma (91 patients; lower blue) (X2=13.9, DF=3, P=0.008). (B) Association between breast cancer-specific survival and MBC histologic subtype analysed as two groups (upper green; matrix producing and squamous combined (151 cases) and lower blue; spindle and mixed spindle and squamous (132 patients); X2=10.8, DF=1, P=0.001). A full color version of this figure is available at the British Journal of Cancer journal online.