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. 2023 Jul 21;201(3):471–478. doi: 10.1007/s10549-023-07029-4

Table 3.

Reasons to omit surgery in women with non-metastatic breast cancer treated with ET.

N= %
No information 136 52.9
Wish patient 44 17.1
Physical conditon 30 11.7
Mental condition 11 4.2
Mental and physical condition 2 0.8
Inoperable 13 5.1
Age only 9 3.5
Other diagnosis determines prognosis 4 1.6
Other (reasons noted: tumor was chance finding, due to surgery, no primary tumor, not opportune according to surgeon, pleural effusion/axillary nodes) 8 3.2

In case another reason e.g. “mental condition” was mentioned together with “wish patient” this was counted as the first reason in this table