Table 1: Description of the clinical samples (N = 269)

Clinical Information Value Occurrences

Histology Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma 214
Lobular Carcinoma 17
Medullary Carcinoma 11
Papillary Carcinoma 8
Scirrhous Invasive Ductal Carcinoma 13
Tubular Carcinoma 6

Surgery Procedure Lumpectomy + node dissection 153
Mastectomy + node dissection 116

Age 21 – 50 96
51-95 184

Stage (AJCC) [32] 1 67
2 121
3 48
4 33

Chemotherapy CMF 202
None 67

Radiation Breast 153
None 116

ER Negative 91
Positive 178

PR Negative 80
Positive 189

Her2/neu Negative 226
Positive 43

Metastasis Site Non-axillary Lymph node 18
Liver 7
Lung 4
Bone 3
Brain 1
None 236

Smoking No 180
Yes (> 20 packs/year) 45
Yes (2 packs/day) 7
Yes (3 packs/day) 37

pT (AJCC) [32] 1 80
2 123
3 44
4 22

pN (AJCC)(32) 0 88
1 170
2 11

Nodes Positive (Pathological) 0 72
1 – 3 79
4 – 9 43
≥ 10 75

Response to Treatment Responders 10
None 23

5-year disease free survival Yes 191
No 44
Censored 1
(remaining are in Stage 4) (33)