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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018 Oct 18;27(11):1332–1341. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-1129

Table 3.

Conditional probabilities of progressing to metastatic recurrence in the absence of other cause death in an interval given being alive and recurrence free at the beginning of interval by stage, hormone receptor (HR) status, grouped age and years at diagosis.

Percent progressing to MR among women recurrence-free at the beginning of the interval
HR positive
HR negative
Stage I Years from diag. 15–59 60–74 75–84 15–59 60–74 75–84
1992–1999 0 to 5 3.4% 3.7% 6.8% 8.7% 7.3% 12.5%
5 to 10 3.3% 4.1% 6.9% 3.9% 5.3% 8.3%
10 to 15 3.0% 4.1% 6.2% 1.8% 2.8% 4.1%
2000–2013 0 to 5 2.3% 2.5% 4.5% 7.2% 6.5% 10.3%
5 to 10 2.1% 2.7% 4.7% 2.4% 3.4% 5.9%
10 to 15 1.9% 2.7% 4.3% 1.1% 1.6% 2.7%
Stage II
1992–1999 0 to 5 12.4% 12.6% 19.4% 23.0% 24.1% 35.0%
5 to 10 8.6% 10.2% 11.4% 4.4% 8.0% 8.7%
10 to 15 5.9% 7.6% 6.9% 1.7% 2.8% 2.8%
2000–2013 0 to 5 9.3% 9.6% 14.1% 18.2% 20.2% 28.1%
5 to 10 6.4% 7.7% 8.9% 2.2% 4.1% 5.7%
10 to 15 4.4% 5.7% 5.5% 0.9% 1.5% 1.7%
Stage III
1992–1999 0 to 5 40.7% 42.5% 53.3% 56.4% 55.2% 68.3%
5 to 10 16.1% 20.4% 17.5% 5.9% 13.1% 16.6%
10 to 15 8.9% 12.0% 9.8% 2.8% 4.5% 5.5%
2000–2013 0 to 5 32.1% 34.5% 42.3% 47.8% 48.5% 60.6%
5 to 10 13.2% 16.8% 16.3% 2.6% 6.4% 12.2%
10 to 15 7.1% 9.7% 8.7% 1.7% 2.5% 3.9%

Note: The results used the analytical deconvolution method and the log-logistic cure mixture model. Survival from recurrence used an adjustment of hazard ration r=1.35 compared to de novo distant-stage breast cancer.