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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of included and excluded women

From: Low thyroid hormone receptor alpha-2 (THRα-2) tumor expression is associated with unfavorable tumor characteristics and high breast cancer mortality

 

Included (N = 654)

TMA not

Missing TMA-

Excluded for other

Imputed

Original

evaluable (N = 64)

material (N = 194)

reasons (N = 106)

Mean age at diagnosisa (SD)

65.5

65.5 (8.0)

62.6 (8.1)

65.9 (8.3)

64.5 (9.1)

BMI (SD)

25.7

25.7 (4.2)

25.2 (4.2)

25.5 (3.7)

25.7 (4.7)

Year diagnosed

     

 1991–2004

58.1

58.1

67.2

66.0

67.0

 2005–2007

22.0

22.0

26.6

15.5

16.0

 2008–2010

19.9

19.9

6.3

18.6

17.0

Surrogate intrinsic

     

 Luminal A-like

55.5

54.5

57.1

62.2

53.3

Subtype

     

 Luminal B-like

25.3

25.0

25.7

25.6

26.7

 HER2+

9.6

10.5

8.6

9.8

13.3

 Triple-negative

9.6

10.0

8.6

2.4

6.7

 Missing

 

21.7

45.3

57.7

85.8

Tumor size (mm)

     

 ≤ 10

19.8

19.8

49.2

39.7

36.8

 11–20

48.7

48.7

33.3

40.8

28.9

 21–50

28.2

28.3

17.5

16.7

25.0

 > 50

3.2

3.2

0.0

2.9

9.2

 Missing

 

0.5

1.6

10.3

28.3

Axillary lymph nodes

     

 No

65.8

64.9

80.4

77.3

77.5

 Yes

34.2

35.1

19.6

22.7

22.5

 Missing

 

4.6

12.5

27.3

62.3

  1. Data is presented as valid column % and missing data is presented in total column %. Missing not presented if no missing values
  2. aMean age presented in years