Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018 Dec 27;28(4):798–806. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-18-0863

Table 1.

Tumor PAM50 subtypes in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS)/NHSII cohorts.

Luminal A Luminal B HER2-Enriched Basal-like Normal-like
n 405 157 124 128 68
NHS Cohort, n (%)
 NHS 234 (57.8) 93 (59.2) 81 (65.3) 84 (65.6) 45 (66.2)
 NHSII 171 (42.2) 64 (40.8) 43 (34.7) 44 (34.4) 23 (33.8)
Tumor grade, n (%)
 1: Predominantly well-differentiated 143 (36.4) 21 (13.5) 14 (11.8) 11 (9.4) 22 (36.1)
 2: Moderately differentiated 216 (55.0) 86 (55.1) 72 (60.5) 33 (28.2) 35 (57.4)
 3: Poorly differentiated 34 (8.7) 49 (31.4) 33 (27.7) 73 (62.4) 4 (6.6)
Stage, n (%)
 I 265 (65.6) 89 (56.7) 65 (52.4) 62 (48.8) 47 (69.1)
 II 104 (25.7) 53 (33.8) 40 (32.3) 59 (46.5) 15 (22.1)
 III 32 (7.9) 14 (8.9) 18 (14.5) 6 (4.7) 5 (7.4)
 IV 3 (0.7) 1 (0.6) 1 (0.8) 0 (0.0) 1 (1.5)
Tumor estrogen receptor, n (%)
 Positive 389 (96.5) 150 (96.2) 82 (66.7) 36 (28.3) 52 (76.5)
 Negative 14 (3.5) 6 (3.8) 41 (33.3) 91 (71.7) 16 (23.5)
Tumor progesterone receptor, n (%)
 Positive 382 (95.3) 141 (90.4) 76 (62.3) 33 (26.2) 51 (75.0)
 Negative 19 (4.7) 15 (9.6) 46 (37.7) 93 (73.8) 17 (25.0)
Tumor HER2, n (%)
 Positive 101 (26.5) 40 (27.8) 48 (42.1) 21 (17.8) 14 (23.0)
 Negative 280 (73.5) 104 (72.2) 66 (57.9) 97 (82.2) 47 (77.0)
Tumor Ki-67, n (%)
 High 36 (25.2) 27 (44.3) 19 (38.0) 26 (49.1) 5 (16.7)
 Low 107 (74.8) 34 (55.7) 31 (62.0) 27 (50.9) 25 (83.3)