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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 8.

Published in final edited form as: Cancer Inform. 2008;6:99–109. doi: 10.4137/cin.s401

Table 3.

Clinical, histologic, and image analysis factors affecting DCIS recurrence by image analysis assessment.

Field 1			Field 2
Factors^a	p-value		Factors^a	p-value
Texture (Histogram mean)	0.01		Densitometry (Range density)	<0.001
Initial presentation	0.01		Measured margin	<0.001
Parenchymal involvement	0.02		Densitometry (Sum density)	0.02
Architecture	0.05		Van Nuys Prognostic Index	0.04
Both fields – Overall
Morphometry (Ellipticity)		p = 0.04
Initial presentation		p = 0.03
Parenchymal involvement		p = 0.05

^a

Factors significantly (p ≤ 0.05) associated with DCIS recurrence, in the order entered into the step-wise forward Cox regression models.