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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 4.

Sensitivity of estimated percent progressing to metastatic recurrence to (A) the adjustment hazard ratio r, (B) the numerical and analytical solution using log-logistic and Weibull mixture cure survival models and r =1.35 and (C) the assumption of no cure for women diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. Results are shown for women diagnosed at ages 60–74 years.

Percent progressing to recurrence
A. Sensitivity to the adjustment r of the de novo stage IV breast cancer survival
HR positive
HR negative
Years from diag. r=1.0 r=1.35 r=1.5 r=1.7 r=1.0 r=1.35 r=1.5 r=1.7
Stage I 5 3.0% 2.5% 2.4% 2.3% 7.2% 6.5% 6.3% 6.1%
10 5.8% 5.2% 5.0% 4.9% 10.1% 9.7% 9.6% 9.5%
15 8.3% 7.8% 7.6% 7.4% 11.4% 11.2% 11.2% 11.1%
Stage II 5 11.3% 9.6% 9.2% 8.7% 21.7% 20.2% 19.8% 19.4%
10 18.1% 16.6% 16.2% 15.7% 23.8% 23.5% 23.4% 23.3%
15 22.5% 21.4% 21.1% 20.7% 24.7% 24.6% 24.6% 24.5%
Stage III 5 39.6% 34.5% 33.0% 31.4% 50.8% 48.5% 47.9% 47.2%
10 48.3% 45.5% 44.7% 43.8% 52.3% 51.9% 51.7% 51.6%
15 52.2% 50.7% 50.3% 49.9% 53.2% 53.1% 53.0% 53.0%

B. Sensitivity to log-logistic vs. Weibull assumption
HR positive
HR negative
Cure Log-logistic
Cure Weibull
Cure Log-logistic
Cure Weibull
Years from diag Analytical Numerical Analytical Numerical Analytical Numerical Analytical Numerical
Stage I Cure 65% n.a. 81% 83%
1992–1999 5 3.7% 3.0% n.a. n.a. 7.3% 6.6% 6.5% 5.9%
10 7.6% 6.9% n.a. n.a. 12.2% 12.0% 11.7% 11.4%
Stage I Cure 75% n.a. 86% 88%
2000–2013 5 2.5% 2.2% n.a. n.a. 6.5% 5.8% 6.3% 5.6%
10 5.2% 4.9% n.a. n.a. 9.7% 9.7% 9.8% 9.7%
Stage II Cure 56% 65% 66% 67%
1992–1999 5 12.6% 10.6% 12.0% 10.1% 24.1% 22.8% 21.4% 19.9%
10 21.5% 20.3% 21.3% 20.0% 30.2% 30.3% 30.1% 30.0%
Stage II Cure 64% 74% 74% 75%
2000–2013 5 9.6% 8.6% 9.5% 8.5% 20.2% 19.3% 19.7% 18.5%
10 16.6% 16.0% 16.6% 16.0% 23.5% 24.1% 23.8% 24.5%
Stage III Cure 29% 37% 35% 37%
1992–1999 5 42.5% 38.0% 39.8% 34.9% 55.2% 54.4% 52.9% 51.0%
10 54.3% 53.6% 55.1% 53.9% 61.1% 61.7% 61.9% 62.5%
Stage III Cure 38% 48% 45% 47%
2000–2013 5 34.5% 32.0% 33.4% 30.9% 48.5% 48.4% 48.5% 47.5%
10 45.5% 45.1% 45.9% 45.5% 51.9% 53.7% 52.4% 52.7%

C. Sensitivity to the cure assumption: log-logistic with no cure (cure=0%)
Stage III No cure log-logistic

No cure log-logistic

Analytical Numerical Analytical Numerical
1992–1999 5 40.0% 35.7% 49.7% 48.0%
10 55.5% 53.9% 63.9% 63.6%
2000–2013 5 30.8% 28.4% 45.1% 43.2%
10 45.4% 44.5% 58.3% 58.8%