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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2016 Jun 14;23(3):649–657. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-0162

Table 2.

Pathological response by germline BRCA mutation status and Stage

All Patients KU Spanish P*
All patients N=183 N=68 N=115
pCR N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI)
    Yes 100 (55%) (48%, 62%) 44 (65%) (54%, 76%) 56 (49%) (40%, 58%) 0.046
    No 83 (45%) (38%, 52%) 24 (35%) (24%, 46%) 59 (51%) (42%, 60%)
RCB 0 +1
    Yes 125 (68%) (61%, 75%) 55 (81%) (72%, 90%) 70 (61%) (52%, 70%) 0.005
    No 58 (32%) (25%, 39%) 13 (19%) (10%, 28%) 45 (39%) (30%, 48%)

BRCA wild type N=133 N=48 N=85
pCR N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI)
    Yes 75 (56%) (48%, 64%) 31 (65%) (52%, 78%) 44 (52%) (41%, 63%) 0.20
    No 58 (44%) (36%, 52%) 17 (35%) (22%, 48%) 41 (48%) (37%, 59%)
RCB 0 +1
    Yes 92 (69%) (61%, 77%) 39 (81%) (70%, 92%) 53 (62%) (52%, 72%) 0.031
    No 41 (31%) (23%, 39%) 9 (19%) (8%, 30%) 32 (38%) (28%, 48%)

BRCA mutation positive N=27 N=15 N=12
pCR N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI)
    Yes 16 (59%) (40%, 78%) 11 (73%) (51%, 95%) 5 (42%) (14%, 70%) 0.13
    No 11 (41%) (22%, 60%) 4 (27%) (5%, 49%) 7 (58%) (30%, 86%)
RCB 0+1
    Yes 19 (70%) (53%, 87%) 12 (80%) (60%, 100%) 7 (58%) (30%, 86%) 0.40
    No 8 (30%) (13%, 47%) 3 (20%) (0%, 40%) 5 (42%) (14%, 70%)

BRCA status unknown N=23 N=5 N=18
pCR N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI) N (%) ( 95% CI) 1
    Yes 9 (39%) (19%, 59%) 2 (40%) (3%, 83%) 7 (39%) (16%, 62%)
    No 14 (61%) (41%, 81%) 3 (60%) (17%, 103%) 11 (61%) (38%, 84%)
RCB 0 +1
    Yes 14 (61%) (41%, 81%) 4 (80%) (45%, 115%) 10 (56%) (33%, 79%) 0.61
    No 9 (39%) (19%, 56%) 1 (20%) (15%, 55%) 8 (44%) (21%, 67%)

TNM stage I and II N=124 N=58 N=66
pCR N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI) N (%) ( 95% CI)
    Yes 78 (63%) (54%, 71%) 40 (69%) (57%, 81%) 38 (58%) (46, 70%) 0.20
    No 48 (37%) (29%, 46%) 18 (31%) (19%, 43%) 28(42%) (30%, 54%)
RCB 0 +1
    Yes 95 (77%) (70%, 84%) 50 (86%) (77%, 95%) 45 (68%) (57%, 79%) 0.02
    No 29 (23%) (16%, 30%) 8 (14%) (5%, 23%) 21 (32%) (21%, 43%)

TNM stage III N=59 N=10 N=49
pCR N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI) N (%) (95% CI)
    Yes 22 (37%) (25%, 49%) 4 (40%) (10%, 70%) 18 (37%) (23%, 51%) 1.0
    No 37 (63%) (51%, 75%) 6 (60%) (30%, 90%) 31(63%) (49%, 77%)
RCB 0 + 1
    Yes 29 (49%) (36%, 62%) 5 (50%) (19%, 81%) 24 (49%) (35%, 63%) 1.0
    No 30 (51% (38%, 64%) 5 (50%) (19%, 81%) 25 (51%) (37%, 65%)
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Fisher Exact test.