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. 2022 Dec 6;22:498. doi: 10.1186/s12905-022-02079-0

Table 2.

Overall survival rate of breast cancer patients who developed a second primary malignancy with different characteristics, n (%)

Variables 1-year 3-years 5-years 10-years 15-years
Survival Death p Survival Death p Survival Death p Survival Death p Survival Death p
Number 163 (100.00) 0 153 (89.57) 10 (6.13) 144 (88.34) 19 (11.66) 105 (64.42) 58 (35.58) 92 (56.44) 71 (43.56)
Age at BC diagnosis (years) 1.000 0.145 0.147 0.015
  < 56 102 (100.00) 0 96 (94.12) 6 (5.88) 93 (91.18) 9 (8.82) 70 (68.63) 32 (31.37) 65 (63.73) 37 (36.28)
  ≥ 56 61 (100.00) 0 57 (93.44) 4 (6.56) 51 (83.61) 10 (16.39) 35 (57.38) 26 (42.62) 27 (44.26) 34 (55.74)
Age at SPM diagnosis (years) 1.000 0.983 0.418 0.011
  < 62 94 (100.00) 0 88 (93.62) 6 (6.38) 83 (88.30) 11 (11.70) 63 (67.02) 31 (32.98) 61 (64.89) 33 (35.11)
  ≥ 62 69 (100.00) 0 65 (94.20) 4 (5.80) 61 (88.41) 8 (11.59) 42 (60.87) 27 (39.13) 31 (44.93) 38 (55.07)
TNM stage of BCa 0.229 0.975 0.810 0.252
  I + II 119 (100.00) 0 111 (93.28) 8 (6.72) 105 (88.24) 14 (11.76) 79 (66.39) 40 (33.61) 70 (58.82) 49 (41.18)
  III + IV 12 (100.00) 0 10 (83.33) 2 (16.67) 10 (83.33) 2 (16.67) 7 (58.33) 5 (41.67) 5 (41.67) 7 (58.33)
TNM stage of SPMa 1.000 0.135  < 0.001  < 0.001
  I + II 59 (100.00) 0 57 (96.61) 2 (3.39) 57 (96.61) 2 (3.39) 52 (88.14) 7 (11.86) 50 (84.74) 9 (15.25)
  III + IV 36 (100.00) 0 35 (97.22) 1 (2.78) 31 (86.11) 5 (13.89) 16 (44.44) 20 (55.56) 13 (36.11) 23 (63.89)
BC therapeutic hospital grade 0.838 0.537 0.302 0.103
  Tertiary 101 (100.00) 0 94 (93.07) 7 (6.93) 88 (87.13) 13 (12.87) 62 (61.39) 39 (38.61) 52 (51.49) 49 (48.51)
  Secondary 62 (100.00) 0 59 (95.16) 3 (4.84) 56 (90.32) 6 (9.68) 43 (69.35) 19 (30.65) 40 (64.52) 22 (35.48)
SPM therapeutic hospital grade 0.896 0.537 0.338 0.042
  Tertiary 125 (100.00) 0 118 (94.40) 7 (5.60) 112 (89.60) 13 (10.40) 83 (66.40) 42 (33.60) 76 (60.80) 49 (39.20)
  Secondary 38 (100.00) 0 35 (92.11) 3 (7.89) 32 (84.21) 6 (15.79) 22 (57.89) 16 (42.11) 16 (42.11) 22 (57.89)
Surgery for BCb 1.000 0.269 0.761 0.859
  Yes 80 (100.00) 0 83 (94.32) 5 (5.68) 80 (90.91) 8 (9.09) 49 (61.25) 31 (38.75) 46 (57.50) 34 (42.50)
  No 58 (100.00) 0 70 (93.33) 5 (6.67) 64 (85.33) 11 (14.67) 37 (63.79) 21 (36.21) 34 (58.62) 24 (41.38)
Surgery for SPM 0.102 0.192  < 0.001  < 0.001
  Yes 88 (100.00) 0 82 (93.18) 6 (6.82) 77 (87.50) 11 (12.50) 68 (77.27) 20 (22.73) 62 (70.45) 26 (29.55)
  No 75 (100.00) 0 64 (85.33) 11 (14.67) 60 (80.00) 15 (20.00) 37 (49.33) 38 (50.67) 30 (40.00) 45 (60.00)
SPM sitesc
  Colon and rectum 0.259 0.530 0.259 0.211
   Yes 30 (100.00) 0 30 (100.00) 0 (0) 28 (93.33) 2 (6.67) 22 (73.33) 8 (26.67) 20 (66.67) 10 (33.33)
   No 133 (100.00) 0 123 (92.48) 10 (7.52) 116 (87.22) 17 (12.78) 83 (62.41) 50 (37.59) 72 (54.14) 61 (45.86)
  Thyroid 0.292 0.254  < 0.001  < 0.001
   Yes 28 (100.00) 0 28 (100.00) 0 27 (96.43) 1 (3.57) 27 (96.43) 1 (3.57) 27 (96.43) 1 (3.57)
   No 135 (100.00) 0 125 (92.59) 10 (7.41) 117 (86.67) 18 (13.33) 78 (57.78) 57 (42.22) 65 (48.15) 70 (51.85)
  Lung and bronchus 0.344 0.628 0.832 0.491
   Yes 24 (100.00) 0 21 (87.50) 3 (12.50) 20 (83.33) 4 (16.67) 15 (62.50) 9 (37.50) 12 (50.00) 12 (50.00)
   No 139 (100.00) 0 132 (94.96) 7 (5.04) 124 (89.21) 15 (10.79) 90 (64.75) 49 (35.25) 80 (57.55) 59 (42.45)
Latency (years) 0.002  < 0.001 0.647 0.017
  ≤ 5 77 (94.81) 0 67 (87.01) 10 (12.99) 58 (75.32) 19 (24.68) 51 (66.23) 26 (33.77) 51 (66.23) 26 (33.77)
  > 5 86 (100.00) 0 86 (100.00) 0 (0) 86 (100.00) 0 (0) 54 (62.79) 32 (37.21) 41 (47.67) 45 (52.33)

Bold means statistic significance

BC breast cancer, TNM tumour node metastasis, SPM second primary malignancy

aPatients with an unclassified TNM stage were not included

bPatients with an unknown status of surgery were not included

cThe number of SPM sites in colon and rectum, thyroid and lung and bronchus ranked as the top three, were included