The METABRIC dataset also showed a similar trend for differences in tumour size and nodal status and a highly significant difference in CTS5 between the cases and controls.
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Clinical and molecular predictors of very late recurrence in oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer patients.
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This impaired the power of the study and contributed to the difficulty in identifying significant differences between cases and controls after using a conservative correction method but the availability of data from METABRIC allowed assessment of the consistency of differences showing a strong trend towards statistical significance in VLR.