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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Oncol. 2018 Nov 30;20(1):88–99. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30621-1

Table 2:

Type of first events by treatment group: NSABP B-42

Placebo (n=1953) Letrozole (n=1950)

First event n % n %
Distant recurrence 87 4.5 61 3.1
Local recurrence 33 1.7 36 1.8
Contralateral breast cancer 59 3.0 30 1.5
Second non-breast primaries 112 5.7 104 5.3
Death 48 2.5 61 3.1

Total first event 339 17.4 292 15.0
Alive, event free 1614 82.6 1658 85.0