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. 2023 Dec 22;73:103666. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2023.103666

Table 1.

Patient and treatment characteristics.

Characteristic Total (n = 410)
TNBC(n = 111)
HR positive (n = 299)
HER2-zero n = 117 HER2-low n = 293 P HER2-zero n = 40 HER2-low n = 71 P HER2-zero n = 77 HER2-low n = 222 P
Age(years, median) 47 47 51 50 45 46
Histology type 0.716 0.936 0.627
 IBC-NST 98 (83.8) 241 (82.3) 33 (82.5) 59 (83.1) 65 (84.4) 182 (82.0)
 Other 19 (16.2) 52 (17.7) 7 (17.5) 12 (16.9) 12 (15.6) 40 (18.0)
cT 0.324 0.269 0.047
 T1-2 76 (65.0) 205 (70.0) 31 (77.5) 48 (67.6) 45 (58.4) 157 (70.7)
 T3-4 41 (35.0) 88 (30.0) 9 (22.5) 23 (32.4) 32 (41.6) 65 (29.3)
cN 0.369 0.069 0.014
 N0-1 63 (53.8) 172 (58.7) 30 (75.0) 41 (57.7) 33 (42.9) 131 (59.0)
 N2-3 54 (46.2) 121 (41.3) 10 (25.0) 30 (42.3) 44 (57.1) 91 (41.0)
Clinical stage 0.292 0.012 0.003
II 48 (41.0) 137 (46.8) 24 (60.0) 25 (35.2) 24 (31.2) 112 (50.5)
III 69 (59.0) 156 (53.2) 16 (40.0) 46 (64.8) 53 (68.8) 110 (49.5)
HR 0.040
 Positive 77 (65.8) 222 (75.8) 0 (0) 0 (0) 77 (100.0) 222 (100.0)
 Negative 40 (34.2) 71 (24.2) 40 (100.0) 71 (100.0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Ki-67 0.536 0.363 0.484
 ≤ 30 % 25 (21.4) 71 (24.2) 5 (12.5) 4 (5.6) 20 (26.0) 67 (30.2)
>30 % 92 (78.6) 222 (75.8) 35 (87.5) 67 (94.4) 57 (74.0) 155 (69.8)
Chemotherapy regimen 0.189 0.254 0.542
Anthracycline + taxane 110 (94.0) 283 (96.6) 35 (87.5) 66 (93.0) 75 (97.4) 217 (97.7)
 Platinum 2 (1.7) 6 (2.0) 2 (5.0) 4 (5.6) 0 (0) 2 (0.9)
 Others 5 (4.3) 4 (1.4) 3 (7.5) 1 (1.4) 2 (2.6) 3 (1.4)
Surgery 0.901 0.098 0.416
 Mastectomy 97 (82.9) 238 (81.2) 38 (95.0) 58 (81.7) 59 (76.6) 180 (81.1)
 Breast conserving 14 (12.0) 40 (13.7) 2 (5.0) 7 (9.9) 12 (15.6) 33 (14.9)
 IBR 6 (5.1) 15 (5.1) 0 (0) 6 (8.5) 6 (7.8) 9 (4.1)

IBC-NST, invasive breast cancer, no special type; HR, estrogen receptor; IBR, immediate breast reconstruction.