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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2017 Sep 6;24(12):3559–3566. doi: 10.1245/s10434-017-6075-0

TABLE 2.

Adjusted logistic regression predicting receipt of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) versus axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) (n = 25,993)

OR (95% CI) p value Overall p value
Molecular subtype <0.001
 Luminal Reference
 HER2+ 0.888 (0.802–0.982) 0.02
 TNBC 0.793 (0.712–0.884) <0.001
Age (years) <0.001
 ≥70 Reference
 40–69 0.694 (0.643–0.749) <0.001
 <40 0.591 (0.494–0.705) <0.001
Race <0.001
 White Reference
 Black 0.825 (0.74–0.919) <0.001
 Other 0.836 (0.722–0.967) 0.02
Year of diagnosis <0.001
 2009 Reference
 2010 1.563 (1.199–2.038) <0.001
 2011 4.935 (3.761–6.475) <0.001
 2012 7.211 (5.489–9.472) <0.001
 2013 9.601 (7.278–12.664) <0.001
 2014 13.018 (9.819–17.259) <0.001
Education level 0.19
 ≤80% HS graduation rate Reference
 >80% HS graduation rate 1.052 (0.977–1.132) 0.18
Income level ($) 0.86
 <35,000 Reference
 ≥35,000 0.993 (0.913–1.079) 0.86
Insurance 0.99
 Private Reference
 Government 1.004 (0.939–1.073) 0.91
 Not insured 1.016 (0.814–1.268) 0.89
Facility type <0.001
 Academic Reference
 Integrated network 1 (0.832–1.203) 1.00
 Comprehensive 0.888 (0.786–1.005) 0.06
 Community 0.665 (0.57–0.777) <0.001
Facility location <0.001
 South Reference
 Midwest 0.755 (0.661–0.864) <0.001
 Northeast 0.983 (0.857–1.126) 0.80
 West 1.049 (0.903–1.219) 0.53
Charlson/Deyo comorbidity score 0.72
 0 Reference
 1 1.006 (0.922–1.098) 0.89
 ≥2 0.935 (0.795–1.1) 0.42
Clinical T stage <0.001
 1 Reference
 2 0.813 (0.763–0.866) <0.001
Grade <0.001
 1 Reference
 2 0.857 (0.795–0.923) <0.001
 3 0.648 (0.592–0.71) <0.001

OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, HER2 human epidermal growth factor 2, TNBC triple-negative breast cancer, HS high school