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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 Oct 20;27(1):3–10. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0420

Table 2.

Prevalence of breast cancer intrinsic subtypes in different populations

Race/ethnicity Reference Source Subtypes
definition
Prevalence of breast cancer intrinsic
subtypes
Luminal
A
Luminal
B
HER2-
enriched
Triple
Negative
NHW Plasilova (60) The National Cancer Database (NCDB) HR and HER2 74.80% 9.70% 4.10% 11.40%
AA 59.60% 11% 5.60% 23.70%
API 70.10% 11.70% 6.90% 11.20%
US Latinas 67.40% 11.90% 5.80% 14.80%
Other/Unknown 71.80% 11.00% 5.10% 12.10%
NHW Sineshaw (61) The National Cancer Database (NCDB) HR and HER2 66.80% 8.90% 3.80% 10.20%
AA 51.70% 10.00% 5.00% 21.10%
API 63.50% 10.60% 6.10% 10.10%
US Latinas 58.20% 10.60% 5.20% 13.10%
Other/Unknown 57.30% 10.40% 4.90% 11.00%
NHW Kurian (57) California Cancer Registry HR and HER2 71.60% 16.90% 11.50%
AA 53.00% 22.40% 24.60%
API 62.80% 27.20% 10.00%
US Latinas 59.30% 24.00% 16.70%
NHW Howlader (54) SEER registries HR and HER2 75.50% 9.80% 4.00% 10.70%
AA 60.20% 11.40% 6.00% 22.50%
API 71.10% 12.30% 6.90% 9.70%
US Latinas 68.20% 11.40% 5.70% 14.70%
NHW Chen (55) SEER registries HR and HER2 76% 9.40% 3.90% 10.70%
AA 60.70% 10.90% 5.70% 22.60%
API 71.80% 11.90% 6.60% 9.70%
American Indian/Alaska Native 71.40% 12.10% 4.70% 11.90%
US Latinas 68.70% 11.60% 5.70% 14%
US Latinas Banegas (53) California Cancer Registry HR and HER2 62.60% 13.80% 8.10% 15.60%
NHW Clarke (58) California Cancer Registry HR and HER2 62% 9% 4% 9%
AA 47% 11% 6% 20%
API 55% 12% 8% 9%
US Latinas 52% 11% 7% 13%
NHW Singh (66) Hospital-based HR and HER2 76,50% 8,80% 4,90% 9,80%
AA 58,90% 11,40% 6,80% 22,80%
US Latinas 59,00% 11,80% 9,50% 19,70%
Chinese 65,60% 9,60% 10,50% 14,30%
Indian 50,10% 12,20% 14,30% 23,30%
NHW Hines (62,88) 4-Corners Breast Cancer Study HR and HER2 70.60% 8.40% 5.90% 15.10%
US Latinas 50.70% 17.30% 14.50% 17.40%
NHW Kwan (65) The Life After Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) study HR and HER2 75.30% 11.10% 3.10% 10.50%
AA 59.40% 9.00% 3.20% 28.40%
API 71.40% 15.90% 6.40% 6.30%
US Latinas 68.50% 14.20% 6.60% 10.70%
Other 68.50% 13.00% 5.50% 13.00%
NHW Kroenke (63) The Life After Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) study and Pathway study HR and HER2 52.00% 32.90% 3.90% 11.00%
AA 31.40% 34.40% 4.50% 29.70%
API 47.70% 36.80% 6.60% 8.90%
US Latinas 45.50% 35.80% 4.70% 14.00%
Other 39.30% 39.70% 4.00% 17.10%
NHW Sweeney (64) The Life After Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) study and Pathway study PAM50 55.20% 20.90% 12.50% 8.20%
AA 43.20% 8.70% 11.60% 30.40%
API 55.20% 21.50% 12.40% 5.00%
US Latinas 44.20% 24.00% 15.60% 11.60%
Latinas from Mexico Lara-medina (67) National Cancer Institute in Mexico HR and HER2 76,90% 23,10%
Latinas from Costa Rica Srur-Rivero (69) Hospital-based Costa Rica HR and HER2 62.30% 9,00% 9.50% 17.10%
Latinas from Brazil de Macêdo Andrade (70) Hospital-based Brazil St Gallen 2011 23.79% 44.61% 14.50% 17.10%
Latinas from Puerto Rico Ortiz (72) Hospital-based Puerto Rico HR and HER2 61.80% 13.30% 7.50% 17.30%
Latinas from Colombia Serrano-Gómez (73) National Cancer Institute in Colombia HR and HER2 52.49% 15.95% 10.30% 20.60%
St Gallen 2011 36.21% 30.23% 8.64% 20.60%
St Gallen 2013 26.25% 37.21% 8.64% 20.60%
Latinas from Colombia Gómez (77) Hospital-based Colombia St Gallen 2011 22.30% 56.40% 9.10% 12.20%
Latinas from Mexico Martinez (68) Clinical-based HR and HER2 59.80% 23.60% 16.60%
Latinas from Peru Vallejos (78) Hospital-based Peru HR and HER2 49.3% 13.20% 16.2% 21.3%