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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2023 Jul 17;201(3):387–396. doi: 10.1007/s10549-023-07038-3

Table 1.

Patient and tumor characteristics

Patient characteristics N = 37

Median age (range) 64 yrs (42–81)
Median BMI (range) 28.3 (19.3–55.1)
Post-menopausal 31 (83.8%)
Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy
 Aromatase inhibitor** 28 (75.6%)
 Tamoxifen 9 (24.4%)
Surgery
 Lumpectomy 26 (70%)
 Mastectomy 11 (30%)
Adjuvant therapy
 Radiation 24 (65%)
 Chemotherapy 10 (27%)
 No radiation, no chemotherapy 3 (8%)
Node status at surgery
 pN0 30 (81%)
 pN1 7 (19%)
Tumor characteristics N = 38*
 Median clinical tumor size (range) 1.3 cm (0.5–7.7)
 Median tumor size at surgery (range) 1.2 cm (0.09–4)
Histology
 Invasive ductal 26 (68%)
 Invasive lobular 12 (32%)
ER/PR status
ER+/PR+ 32 (84%)
ER+ /PR− 6 (16%)
Tumor grade
 1 16 (43.2%)
 2 18 (47.4%)
 3 4 (10.5%)
*

One patient multifocal disease (two HR+ foci with distinct histology)

**

One patient treated with aromatase inhibitor and GnRH analog