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Table 1 Distribution of the clinicopathological characteristics of all samples or Her2-amplified samples split into discovery and validation cohorts according to the Morisita index

From: An ecological measure of immune-cancer colocalization as a prognostic factor for breast cancer

Characteristics

All subtypes (discovery)

All subtypes (validation)

Her2+ (discovery)

HER2+ (validation)

Morisita high

Morisita low

P

Morisita high

Morisita low

P

Morisita high

Morisita low

P

Morisita high

Morisita low

P

Number

 

316

170

 

377

139

 

42

34

 

37

20

 

Follow up (months)

 

117.7 (4.9–120)

110.3 (4.2–120)

 

64.8 (0.3–120)

50.5 (1.9–120)

 

108.1 (21.2–120)

61.5 (6.8–120)

 

62.3 (1.8–120)

36.3 (10–88.4)

 

Age, years

 

59.8 (27.6–86.1)

59.3 (21.9–83.4)

0.38

60.8 (30–92.1)

60.9 (26.4–96.3)

0.81

57 (28.4–80.6)

54.2 (21.9–71)

0.23

57.4 (33.6–87)

55.9 (35.9–87.2)

0.65

Death

No

246 (77.8 %)

113 (66.5 %)

0.0074*

334 (88.6 %)

115 (82.7 %)

0.1

25 (59.5 %)

14 (41.2 %)

0.097

35 (94.6 %)

13 (65 %)

0.0063*

 

Yes

64 (20.3 %)

53 (31.2 %)

 

43 (11.4 %)

24 (17.3 %)

 

14 (33.3 %)

19 (55.9 %)

 

2 (5.4 %)

7 (35 %)

 

Size

<2 cm

122 (38.6 %)

66 (38.8 %)

0.88

120 (31.8 %)

41 (29.5 %)

0.27

9 (21.4 %)

13 (38.2 %)

0.15

9 (24.3 %)

9 (45 %)

0.056

 

>2 cm, <5 cm

177 (56 %)

97 (57.1 %)

 

226 (59.9 %)

80 (57.6 %)

 

30 (71.4 %)

17 (50 %)

 

24 (64.9 %)

7 (35 %)

 
 

>5 cm

17 (5.4 %)

7 (4.1 %)

 

29 (7.7 %)

17 (12.2 %)

 

3 (7.1 %)

4 (11.8 %)

 

3 (8.1 %)

4 (20 %)

 

Node

Neg (pN0)

153 (48.4 %)

84 (49.4 %)

0.85

180 (47.7 %)

57 (41 %)

0.19

19 (45.2 %)

10 (29.4 %)

0.23

15 (40.5 %)

9 (45 %)

0.78

 

Pos (pN1-pN3)

163 (51.6 %)

86 (50.6 %)

 

193 (51.2 %)

80 (57.6 %)

 

23 (54.8 %)

24 (70.6 %)

 

22 (59.5 %)

11 (55 %)

 

Grade

1

37 (11.7 %)

18 (10.6 %)

0.39

42 (11.1 %)

9 (6.5 %)

0.069

1 (2.4 %)

0 (0 %)

1

2 (5.4 %)

0 (0 %)

0.86

 

2

120 (38 %)

56 (32.9 %)

 

123 (32.6 %)

59 (42.4 %)

 

8 (19 %)

7 (20.6 %)

 

6 (16.2 %)

3 (15 %)

 
 

3

149 (47.2 %)

92 (54.1 %)

 

192 (50.9 %)

64 (46 %)

 

32 (76.2 %)

27 (79.4 %)

 

26 (70.3 %)

15 (75 %)

 

ER

Neg

76 (24.1 %)

54 (31.8 %)

0.069

82 (21.8 %)

39 (28.1 %)

0.16

22 (52.4 %)

19 (55.9 %)

0.82

14 (37.8 %)

14 (70 %)

0.028*

 

Pos

240 (75.9 %)

116 (68.2 %)

 

295 (78.2 %)

100 (71.9 %)

 

20 (47.6 %)

15 (44.1 %)

 

23 (62.2 %)

6 (30 %)

 

Her2

Not amplified

271 (85.8 %)

139 (81.8 %)

0.29

335 (88.9 %)

123 (88.5 %)

0.87

42 (100 %)

34 (100 %)

NA

37 (100 %)

20 (100 %)

NA

 

Amplified

45 (14.2 %)

31 (18.2 %)

 

41 (10.9 %)

16 (11.5 %)

 

20 (47.6 %)

14 (41.2 %)

 

24 (64.9 %)

6 (30 %)

 

TP53

WT

224 (70.9 %)

110 (64.7 %)

0.076

252 (66.8 %)

94 (67.6 %)

1

20 (47.6 %)

20 (58.8 %)

0.49

7 (18.9 %)

10 (50 %)

0.011*

 

Mutated

83 (26.3 %)

59 (34.7 %)

 

94 (24.9 %)

35 (25.2 %)

 

9 (21.4 %)

28 (82.4 %)

 

7 (18.9 %)

14 (70 %)

 

IA

Low

89 (28.2 %)

148 (87.1 %)

1.1×10−37*

71 (18.8 %)

111 (79.9 %)

1.5×10−37*

33 (78.6 %)

6 (17.6 %)

1.6×10−7*

30 (81.1 %)

6 (30 %)

0.00036*

 

High

227 (71.8 %)

22 (12.9 %)

 

306 (81.2 %)

28 (20.1 %)

 

4 (9.5 %)

4 (11.8 %)

 

5 (13.5 %)

2 (10 %)

 

Pam50

Basal

54 (17.1 %)

43 (25.3 %)

0.15

57 (15.1 %)

21 (15.1 %)

0.45

25 (59.5 %)

16 (47.1 %)

0.83

13 (35.1 %)

9 (45 %)

0.46

 

HER2

50 (15.8 %)

18 (10.6 %)

 

30 (8 %)

12 (8.6 %)

 

5 (11.9 %)

4 (11.8 %)

 

7 (18.9 %)

1 (5 %)

 
 

LumA

106 (33.5 %)

49 (28.8 %)

 

129 (34.2 %)

50 (36 %)

 

6 (14.3 %)

7 (20.6 %)

 

9 (24.3 %)

4 (20 %)

 
 

LumB

86 (27.2 %)

48 (28.2 %)

 

103 (27.3 %)

28 (20.1 %)

 

2 (4.8 %)

3 (8.8 %)

 

3 (8.1 %)

4 (20 %)

 
 

Normal

19 (6 %)

11 (6.5 %)

 

58 (15.4 %)

28 (20.1 %)

 

42

34

 

37

20

 
  1. Results are presented as number (%) or median (range). P-values are for Kruskal-Wallis test or Fisher’s exact test; *statistically significant. Samples with missing data are not shown. Death breast cancer-specific death, Size tumor size, Node lymph node status, Grade tumor grade, ER estrogen receptor expression status defined by gene expression data, Her2 human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status defined by SNP6 copy number data, TP53 TP53 mutation status, WT wild type, IA immune abundance, Pam50 intrinsic subtypes, Pos positive, Neg negative, LumA luminal A, Lum B luminal B