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Table 1 Breast cancer patients’ clinicopathological data of the testing and validation cohort #1

From: Overexpression of circulating MiR-30b-5p identifies advanced breast cancer

Clinicopathological features

Testing cohort

Validation cohort #1

Patients (n)

16

82

Age median (range)

58 (35–78)

49 (28–76)

Molecular subtypea (%)

 Luminal A-Like

4 (25.0)

19 (23.2)

 Luminal B-Like

12 (75.0)

58 (70.7)

 HER2-enriched

1 (1.2)

 Basal-like/TNBC

4 (4.9)

Histological type (%)

 Invasive carcinoma of NST

13 (81.2)

73 (89.0)

 Invasive lobular carcinoma

3 (18.8)

 Other special subtype carcinoma

 Mixed type carcinoma

9 (11.0)

Grade (%)

 G1

2 (12.5)

4 (4.9)

 G2

4 (25.0)

43 (52.4)

 G3

8 (50.0)

35 (42.7)

 Gx

2 (12.5)

ER receptor status (%)

 Positive

16 (100.0)

77 (93.9)

 Negative

5 (6.1)

PR receptor status (%)

 Positive

10 (62.5)

65 (79.3)

 Negative

6 (37.5)

17 (20.7)

HER2 receptor status (%)

 Positive

3 (18.8)

15 (18.3)

 Negative

13 (81.2)

67 (81.7)

T Stage (%)

 T1

4 (25.0)

20 (24.4)

 T2

9 (56.2)

52 (63.4)

 T3

1 (6.3)

5 (6.1)

 T4

2 (12.5)

3 (3.7)

 Tx

2 (2.4)

N Stage (%)

 N0

5 (31.2)

18 (22.0)

 N1

7 (43.8)

33 (40.2)

 N2

2 (12.5)

16 (19.5)

 N3

2 (12.5)

13 (15.9)

 Nx

2 (2.4)

Stage (%)

 I

3 (18.8)

10 (12.2)

 II

8 (50.0)

34 (41.5)

 III

5 (31.2)

24 (29.3)

 IV

12 (14.6)

 Not determined

2 (2.4)

  1. ER estrogen receptor, G grade, HER2 human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, NST no special type, PR progesterone receptor
  2. aAssessed by immunohistochemistry