“…High primary tumor histological grade (G3 vs. G1-2) was recurrently associated with BCBM progression, with twelve [19,28,29,36,38,51,52,57,59,70,78,79] of the 19 studies examined [12, 16, 19, 28, 29, 33, 36, 38, 40, 50-53, 57, 59, 70, 72, 78, 79], reporting a statistically significant univariate association. On multivariate analysis, a significant positive association between Grade 2 [26,80] 5 NR, p < 0.05 [17]; <50 years, HR: 2.7, p = 0.0048 [25]; ≤50 years, HR: 1.92 p = 0.04 [26]; Young age OR: 1.66 p = 0.014 [44]; ≤40 years, p = 0.045 [80] Hormone receptor status 7 [20,26,27,44,61,66,80] 3 [20,44,66] 2 Negative, OR: 1.75 p = 0.033 [44]; Negative, RR: 3.41 p = 0.01 [ [17,23,24,44,47,61] 2 [47,61] 3 OR:1.61 p = 0.025 [80]; Late (≥6 months after BC diagnosis), HR: 2.65, p = 0.043, No, HR:3.79, p = 0.0042 [44]; ≥2 line OR: 3.43 p = 0.003 [61] HR -Hazard Ratio; OR -Odds Ratio; RR -Relative risk; NR -Not Reported.…”