Breast Cancer Pathology, Receptor Status, and Patterns of Metastasis in a Rural Appalachian Population

Table 5

Tumor size in relation to ER and triple-negative status^†.

Category	ER-positive	ER-negative	Triple-negative	ER-negative; Not triple-negative
No metastases	2.0±0.9 (389)^b	2.7±0.2 (150)^b	2.8±0.2 (103)^b	2.8±2.0 (47)
Metastases
Bone	4.2±0.3 (26)^a	1.6±0.7 (8)^b	1.4±0.9 (5)^b	—
Visceral	3.9±0.4 (18)^a	4.1±0.4 (26)^a	4.3±0.5 (19)^a	3.7±1.5 (8)
𝑃 value	<0.0001	0.001	0.007

†Tumor size in centimeters, cm ± standard error; (𝑛): number of cases.
a,bMeans without the same superscript are significantly different.