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Table 4 Best fit multivariate models for the 2492 Asian breast cancer patients treated with breast-conserving therapy (1989–2012)

From: Age exerts a continuous effect in the outcomes of Asian breast cancer patients treated with breast-conserving therapy

Clinicopathologic characteristics

Overall survival

Breast cancer-specific survival

Breast cancer-free interval

Time to local recurrence

Hazard ratio (95% CI)

P value

Hazard ratio (95% CI)

P value

Hazard ratio (95% CI)

P value

Hazard ratio (95% CI)

P value

No. of events/no. of patients

98/1988

 

54/2120

 

182/1988

 

64/2120

 

Age at diagnosis

25.21 [(age/10)−2 − 0.04] + 0.06 [(age/10)2 − 25]a

< 0.001

0.95 (0.92–0.98)

0.001

13.14 [(age/10)−2 − 0.04]a

< 0.001

0.95 (0.93–0.98)

< 0.001

Tumor size

1.21 (0.99–1.46)

0.064

Not included

 

1.15 (1.00–1.32)

0.050

Not included

 

Grade

 

< 0.001

Not included

  

< 0.001

Not included

 

 1

1

   

1

   

 2

4.06 (1.59–10.38)

   

3.38 (1.78–6.41)

   

 3

4.94 (1.90–12.84)

   

4.08 (2.12–7.86)

   

No. of positive nodes

1.05 (1.01–1.09)

0.031

Not included

 

1.06 (1.03–1.09)

0.001

Not included

 

Histologic subtype

 

0.024

 

0.002

 

0.007

 

0.002

 Luminal A/B

1

 

1

 

1

 

1

 

 HER2 enriched

1.02 (0.50–2.12)

 

0.80 (0.24–2.64)

 

1.39 (0.85–2.28)

 

3.42 (1.82–6.41)

 

 Basal

1.99 (1.22–3.25)

 

2.94 (1.64–5.28)

 

1.85 (1.27–2.69)

 

1.61 (0.82–3.15)

 
  1. aWhere age was significantly non-linear, the fractional polynomial function was presented instead of the hazard ratio. Age was scaled by a factor of 10 and centered on 50 years in these models. Where the number of events was insufficient to include all the covariates in the model, only age and histologic subtype were included