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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pathol Res Pract. 2018 Mar 27;214(5):673–678. doi: 10.1016/j.prp.2018.03.020

Table 2.

Association between ER, PR, HER2, Luminal subtypes, TNBC, distant metastasis and PTEN expression

Estrogen Receptor Expression

PTEN Negative % Positive % Chi-
Square
p-
value
Loss 36 41.38% 28 23.93% 8.095 0.044
Low expression 28 32.18% 41 35.04%
Medium expression 18 20.69% 36 30.77%
High Expression 5 5.75% 12 10.26%
Progesterone Receptor Expression

PTEN Negative % Positive %

Loss 44 41.12% 20 20.62% 10.576 0.014
Low expression 33 30.84% 36 37.11%
Medium expression 22 20.56% 32 32.99%
High Expression 8 7.48% 9 9.28%
HER2 Expression

PTEN Negative % Positive %

Loss 56 32.00% 8 27.59% 3.808 0.283
Low expression 57 32.57% 12 41.38%
Medium expression 45 25.71% 9 31.03%
High Expression 17 9.71% 0 0.00%
Breast Cancer Luminal Subtype

PTEN Non-Luminal % Luminal %

Loss 36 41.86% 28 23.73% 8.329 0.04
Low expression 27 31.40% 42 35.59%
Medium expression 18 20.93% 36 30.51%
High Expression 5 5.81% 12 10.17%
TNBC Subtype

PTEN Non-TNBC % TNBC %

Loss 34 25.19% 30 44.12% 8.559 0.036
Low expression 47 34.81% 21 30.88%
Medium expression 42 31.11% 12 17.65%
High Expression 12 8.89% 5 7.35%
Metastasis

PTEN No Mets % Mets %

Negative 105 62.13% 24 77.42% 2.674 0.102
Positive 64 37.87% 7 22.58%