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Table 1 Overview of all originally disseminated tumor cell (DTC)-positive patients with detectable DTCs by double immunofluorescence technique and clinicopathological parameters

From: NR2F1 stratifies dormant disseminated tumor cells in breast cancer patients

Patient identifier

Study

BMA time pointsa

NR2F1/AE1AE3 DIF analysis

Ki67/AE1AE3 DIF analysis

HR

HER2

T status

N status

Time (months) from BMA to systemic relapse or BC death

Relapse status or BC death (if not recorded relapse)

Time (months) from BMA to last observation if no relapse

Comment

No. of DTCs

% NR2F1high DTCs

No. of DTCs

% Ki67+ DTCs

20

N

(BM1)-BM3

35

0

7

28.6

pos

nd

3

2

0.30

Bone and visceral

  

74

S

(BM1-BM3)-BM4

3

0

nd

nd

pos

neg

1

1

1.09

Bone

  

5

O

(BM1)/BM2

1000

0

1000

15.0

pos

pos

1

1

1.15

Bone

  

60

S

(BM2)-BM3

1000

0b

84

26,2

pos

neg

2

1

1.84

Bone

  

27

N

(BM1)-BM2

5

0c

nd

nd

neg

nd

3

0

5.69

Visceral

  

62

S

BM2

40,000

0

nd

nd

pos

neg

2

0

5.79

Bone and visceral

 

Chemo after BMA

4

O

(BM1)-BM2

9

0

23

21.7

pos

neg

3

1

7.50

Bone and visceral

  

3

O

BM1

11

0

nd

nd

pos

neg

2

1

11.22

Visceral

  

78

S

(BM1)-BM2-(BM3)

26

0

29

13.8

pos

neg

2

3

13.19

Bone and visceral

 

Chemo after BMA

13

O

BM1

79

0

nd

Nd

neg

pos

1

1

13.22

Bone

 

Chemo after BMA

17

N

BM3

5

0

4

25.0

pos

nd

3

1

17.57

Bone and visceral

  

34

N

BM1-(BM2)

2

0

nd

nd

pos

neg

3

1

47.43

Visceral

 

Chemo after BMA

12

O

BM2

16

0

nd

nd

pos

neg

2

1

 

No relapse

57.73

 

66

S

BM1-(BM4)

3

0

nd

nd

pos

neg

1

2

 

No relapse

87.50

Chemo after BMA

11

O

(BM1)-BM2

500

1.0

87

66.7

neg

pos

3

1

3.72

BC death

  

23

N

BM3

50

10.0

16

12.5

pos

pos

3

0

13.55

BC death

  

35

N

(BM1)-BM3

7

14.3

12

25.0

pos

nd

3

2

N/A

d

 

Met. before BMA

48

 

(BM1)-BM3

17

25.5

10

20.0

pos

nd

3

0

12.24

Bone

  

41

N

BM3

111

30.6

82

17.1

pos

nd

4

1

N/A

d

 

Met. before BMA

36

N

(BM1)-BM3

6

50,0

4

50.0

pos

nd

3

1

25.33

Bone

  

84

S

(BM1)-BM2

2

50.0

nd

nd

pos

neg

2

2

 

No relapse

55.53

Chemo after BMA

9

O

BM1

48

56.3

nd

Nd

neg

neg

2

1

N/A

Boned

 

Met. at BMA

85

S

(BM1)-BM2

106

56.6

70

10.0

pos

neg

2

2

 

No relapse

56.02

Chemo after BMA

69

S

(BM1)-BM2-(BM3)

52

65.4

35

0

pos

neg

2

2

15.10

Visceral

 

Chemo after BMA

6

O

(BM1)-BM2

233

94.9

400

1.0

neg

pos

1

1

N/A

Visceral

 

Met. before BMA

57

S

(BM3)-BM4

6

100

nd

nd

neg

nd

2

0

 

No relapse

59.93

 
  1. BC breast cancer, Chemo chemotherapy, DIF double immunofluorescence, HR hormone receptor, Met. metastasis, N Neotax, N/A not applicable, nd not determined, neg negative, O Oslo1, pos positive, S SATT
  2. aThe bone marrow aspiration (BMA) time points for each patient are noted. In this table, the DTC results are only presented for the BMAs highlighted in bold (last positive sample); results from the other BMA time points are available in Additional file 1 (Table S1) and partly in Fig 3
  3. bIn the first bone marrow (BM) sample, 46.3% of the DTCs were NR2F1high
  4. cIn the first BM sample, 33.3% of the DTCs were NR2F1high
  5. dMetastasis before BMA