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. 2016 Jun 1;5(8):2109–2116. doi: 10.1002/cam4.757

Table 2.

Patient and tumor characteristics of Luminal B invasive breast cancer cases

N Luminal B (HER2+) P‐valuea
ER+/PR+ ER+/PR− ER−/PR+ ER+/PR+: ER+/PR+: ER+/PR−:
N % N % N % ER+/PR− ER−/PR+ ER−/PR+
Total 16,354 11,391 4491 472
Age at diagnosis <0.0001 0.7842 <0.0001
<50 4621 3518 30.9 950 21.2 153 32.4
50–64 6631 4431 38.9 2016 44.9 184 39.0
65–74 2886 1951 17.1 855 19.0 80 16.9
≥75 2216 1491 13.1 670 14.9 55 11.7
Race/ethnicity 0.3661 <0.0001 <0.0001
NH white 10,793 7545 66.2 2970 66.1 278 58.9
NH black 1918 1306 11.5 555 12.4 57 12.1
Asian/Pacific Islander 1491 1038 9.1 400 8.9 53 11.2
Am. Indian/Alaska Native 105 63 0.6 30 0.7 12 2.5
Hispanic 1921 1352 11.9 503 11.2 66 14.0
Unknown 126 87 0.8 33 0.7 6 1.3
AJCC stage <0.0001 <0.0001 0.003
0–I 6383 4534 39.8 1710 37.9 139 29.2
II 5792 4073 35.8 1536 34.2 183 38.8
III 2463 1697 14.9 676 15.1 90 19.1
IV 1260 781 6.9 437 9.7 42 8.9
Unknown 456 306 2.7 132 2.9 18 3.8
Tumor size <0.0001 0.1152 0.7848
≤0.5 cm 1348 861 7.6 443 9.9 44 9.3
>0.5 cm 14,178 9983 87.6 3800 84.6 395 83.7
Unknown 828 547 4.8 248 5.5 33 7.0
Poverty index 0.1446 0.6807 0.3295
Q1 3648 2514 22.1 1025 22.8 109 23.1
Q2 3717 2585 22.7 1030 22.9 102 21.6
Q3 3814 2635 23.1 1078 24.0 101 21.4
Q4 5172 3654 32.1 1358 30.2 160 33.9
Unknown 3 3 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0

Summary of clinical and demographic characteristics of hormone receptor‐positive (HR+), HER2+ Luminal B breast cancers in women with invasive breast cancer: Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results 18, 2010–2012. NH, non‐Hispanic; ER, estrogen receptor; PR, progesterone receptor; HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2.

a

P‐value calculations do not include unknown values.