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Table 5 Comparison of Arab and Kurdish ethnicity versus age for the specified breast cancer receptor types

From: Breast cancer in Iraq is associated with a unimodally distributed predominance of luminal type B over luminal type A surrogates from young to old age

Receptor type

Arab (n)

Kurdish (n)

P

ER+/HER2-

48.3 ± 10.5 (85)

49.0 ± 11.1 (457)

0.83

ER+/HER2+

48.7 ± 10.5 (11)

44.9 ± 10.8 (79)

0.61

ER-/HER2+

51.2 ± 7.8 (11)

1.2 ± 10.9 (98)

0.91

Triple-

53.7 ± 18.2 (17)

50.7 ± 12.1 (90)

0.81

Luminal A

51.7 ± 11.9 (15)

49.5 ± 10.6 (141)

0.53

Luminal B

46.8 ± 11.2 (31)

47.7 ± 11.4 (237)

0.66

  1. Legend: Values are displayed as mean ± standard deviation. Comparisons are made by Wilcoxon rank sum tests. The receptor subtypes by age were not significantly different between Kurdish or Arabic women
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BMC Women's Health

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