Clinical Study

Changing Trends of Breast Cancer Survival in Sultanate of Oman

Table 3

Overall survival in all patients ( ) and relapse-free survival for patients in the nonmetastatic group ( ). Univariate analysis performed using Cox proportional hazard’s model.

VariableOverall SurvivalRelapse-Free Survival
Risk ratio -valueRisk ratio -value

Skin involvement at presentation
 Negative11
 Positive3.3 (1.5–7.5).0033.0 (1.4–6.4).003

Pathological T-size
 T1 + T211
 T3 + T42.6 (1.1–6.1).0231.9 (0.9–3.9).09

Stage
 I and II11
 III /IV5.4 (1.8–15.8).0043.7 (1.6–8.6).003

Lymph nodes involved
 Negative1
 Positive2.9 (1.3–7.1).013