Research Article

Association of Preoperative Serum Levels of CEA and CA15-3 with Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer

Table 5

Correlation between serum CA125 level and clinicopathological factors.

CharacteristicCA125 negative ()CA125 positive () value

Age (years)0.1674
 <50423 (93.17)31 (6.83)
 ≥50483 (95.27)24 (4.73)
Histologic grade0.6247
 Grade 165 (92.86)5 (7.14)
 Grade 2558 (94.74)31 (5.26)
 Grade 3191 (93.17)14 (6.83)
Tumor size (cm)0.0296
 <2494 (95.74)22 (4.26)
 ≥2353 (92.17)30 (7.83)
Node status0.0157
 N0487 (95.87)21 (4.13)
 N1374 (91.89)33 (8.11)
ER0.0825
 Negative231 (92.03)20 (7.97)
 Positive675 (95.07)35 (4.93)
PR0.0341
 Negative268 (91.78)24 (8.22)
 Positive638 (95.37)31 (4.63)
Her20.5191
 Negative681 (93.93)44 (6.07)
 Positive225 (95.34)11 (4.66)
Ki67 (%)
 <14244 (94.94)13 (5.06)0.5855
 ≥14660 (94.02)42 (5.98)
Molecular subtype0.2605
 Luminal A213 (95.09)11 (4.91)
 Luminal B1363 (94.53)21 (5.47)
 Luminal B2121 (95.28)6 (4.72)
 Her2 overexpression104 (95.41)5 (4.59)
 Triple-negative105 (89.74)12 (10.26)

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