Research Article

The Prognostic Value of the Expression of SMC4 mRNA in Breast Cancer

Table 2

Multivariate Cox regression analysis for risk factors associated with OS in female non-TNBC patients from the TCGA cohort from 2001 to 2013 ().

CharacteristicsHR95% CI

Age >65 vs. ≤657.3722.902-18.727<0.001
Stages III-IV vs. stages I-II4.3701.745-10.9490.002
PR negative vs. PR positive4.2961.628-11.3360.003
High SMC4 vs. low SMC43.2931.257-8.6250.015

TNBC = triple negative breast cancer; HR = hazard ratio; CI = confidence intervals; PR = progesterone receptor; SMC4 = structural maintenance of chromosomes protein 4. Wald forward with SMC4 expression and all the characteristics.