Table 3.

Overall and breast cancer–specific survival and recurrence data for the unmatched and matched cohorts.

Total cohort		Unmatched		Matched
		PET	Surgery	PET	Surgery
		N = 500	N = 2354	N = 238	N = 422
Overall survival	Data available	486	2307	229	414
	Alive	351 (72.2%)	2095 (90.8%)	150 (65.5%)	308 (74.4%)
	Died of any cause	135 (27.8%)	212 (9.2%)	79 (34.5%)	106 (25.6%)
Cause-specific survival	Data available	477	2297	223	408
	Alive or died of other causes	452 (94.8%)	2217 (96.5%)	206 (92.4%)	381 (93.4%)
	Died of breast cancer	25 (5.2%)	80 (3.5%)	17 (7.6%)	27 (6.6%)
Recurrence (all types)	Data available	451	2325	221	417
	No	418 (92.7%)	2212 (95.1%)	210 (95.0%)	392 (94.0%)
	Yes	33 (7.3%)	113 (4.9%)	11 (5.0%)	25 (6.0%)
Metastatic recurrence	Data available	450	2324	221	417
	No	423 (94.0%)	2236 (96.2%)	211 (95.5%)	399 (95.7%)
	Yes	27 (6.0%)	88 (3.8%)	10 (4.5%)	18 (4.3%)