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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast. 2018 Dec 7;43:123–129. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2018.12.005

Table 5-.

Clinical characteristics of HIV positive patients by duration of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) at breast cancer diagnosis

Less than or equal to 1 year (n=30) ** More than 1 year (n=130) ** P-value*
Stage at BC diagnosis
Early Stage 13 (43.3%) 52 (40.3%) 0.76
Late Stage 17 (56.7%) 77 (59.7%)
Metastatic disease
No metastasis 23 (76.7%) 114 (87.7%) 0.12
Metastasis 7 (23.3%) 16 (12.3%)
IHC4 subtypes at diagnosis
Luminal A 5 (17.2%) 13 (10.7%) 0.19
Luminal B 21 (72.4%) 73 (60.3%)
Her2-positive 1 (3.5%) 8 (6.6%)
Triple Negative 2 (6.9%) 27 (22.3%)
 Luminal B (ER+/PR+; Her2-; Ki67≥14%) 15 (71.4%) 42 (57.5%) 0.25
 Luminal B (ER+/PR+; Her2+) 6 (28.6%) 31 (42.5%)
*

Chi square test,

Fisher’s exact test and

#

Mann Whitney test comparing duration of ART.

**

Duration of ART missing for 66 HIV positive patients (29.2%).