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