Research Article

Nontherapeutic Risk Factors of Different Grouped Stage IIIC Breast Cancer Patients’ Mortality: A Study of the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database

Table 4

Predictive value of risk factors of DSS.

FactorAUC (95% CI) value

ER status0.5941 (0.570∼0.619)≤0.001
PR status0.6140 (0.588∼0.640)≤0.001
Molecular typing0.5845 (0.557∼0.612)≤0.001
T stage0.5789 (0.549∼0.609)≤0.001
LNP0.5488 (0.522∼0.576)0.002
LNR0.5689 (0.542∼0.596)≤0.001

AUC: area under the curve. CI: confidence interval. DSS: disease-specific survival. ER: estrogen receptor. LNP: positive lymph nodes. LNR: lymph node ratio. PR: progesterone receptor.