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. 2017 Mar 29;17:231. doi: 10.1186/s12885-017-3212-x

Table 3.

Data of three EM clusters found in pooled data of 1169 breast cancer patients

Breast cancer
patients
Three EM clusters from the pooled patients’ data Values for all patients
LMA (low mitotic activity) IMA (intermediate mitotic activity) HMA (high mitotic activity)
Mean Ki-67% 13.17 40.45 77.79 25.45
St.dev. of Ki-67 8.43 13.77 8.45 21.08
Breast cancer types n % n % n % Total %
Luminal A/B1 560 80.92 124 17.92 8 1.16 692 100.00
Luminal B2 126 63.64 68 34.34 4 2.02 198 100.00
triple-negative 41 26.62 58 37.66 55 35.71 154 100.00
pure HER2 42 33.60 73 58.40 10 8.00 125 100.00
Total 769 65.78 323 27.63 77 6.59 1169 100.00

These are the results of the second stage of EM clustering that identified the three overall clusters of Ki-67 values (LMA - low mitotic activity; IMA - intermediate mitotic activity; HMA - high mitotic activity). These are the results of the second stage of EM clustering