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Table 1 Subjects' clinical characteristics at baseline.

From: A randomized phase II presurgical trial of weekly low-dose tamoxifen versus raloxifene versus placebo in premenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer

 

Placebo

(25)

Raloxifene

(50)

Tamoxifen

(50)

Age

(Lower-upper quartile)

44

(42-47)

46

(42-49)

45

(41-49)

Age at menarche

(Lower-upper quartile)

13

(12-13)

12

(12-13)

12

(11-14)

Parity

1

2

2

Family history1

BC°- OC°°

5 - 1

15 - 1

11 - 3

Body mass index

(Lower-upper quartile)

22.9

(21.7-26.2)

22.2

(20.5-24.6)

22.2

(20.3-25.2)

Smoking

Never/former/current/

missing

14/3/8/0

28/10/11/1

24/5/21/0

Tumor size mm

(Lower-upper quartile)

22.0 (15-30)

22.5 (15.0-28.5)

21.5 (15.0-27.5)

Tumor grade

1/2/3/unknown2

7/7/5/6

3/23/7/17

3/22/8/17

HER2 overexpression %

No/yes

96/4

98/2

94/6

Luminal subtype %

A/B HER2 neg/B HER2 pos

36/60/4

20/78/2

27/67/3

  1. 1First or second degree relatives with °breast cancer (BC) or °°ovarian cancer (OC); 2not graded by the pathologist.