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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2016 Jul 22;159(1):109–118. doi: 10.1007/s10549-016-3918-5

Table 3.

Pathologic complete response in four Alliance clinical trials according to race, ethnicity and BMI (N=1672)

Na %pCR OR (95% CI)b
Race
 White 1381 550 (39.8) 1.0 (reference)
 Black 245 99 (40.4) 1.18 (0.85, 1.62)
Ethnicity
 Non-Hispanic 1441 570 (39.6) 1.0 (reference)
 Hispanic 194 90 (46.4) 1.22 (0.86, 1.72)
BMI (kg/m2)
 <20 64 33 (51.6) 1.60 (0.89, 2.86)
 20–24 454 198 (43.6) 1.0 (reference)
 25–29 510 198 (38.8) 0.86 (0.64, 1.16)
 ≥30 722 277 (38.4) 0.82 (0.62, 1.08)
 p-trend c 0.094
Subtype
 ER+/HER2− 416 66 (15.9) 1.0 (reference)
 ER+/HER2+ 399 152 (38.1) 2.16 (1.32, 3.51)
 ER−/HER2+ 311 195 (62.7) 5.48 (3.40, 8.85)
 Triple Negative 611 285 (46.6) 2.56 (1.75, 3.75)
a

125 women excluded due to missing values of variables;

b

mutually adjusted for all variables in table plus trial arm, tumor grade, lymph node status, tumor size, and subtype;

c

p-trend is from a test of linear trend of an ordinal variable defined by the median of each category.