Table 2.
Characteristic | High risk (N = 283) |
Non high risk (N = 2820) |
p value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | ||
Age at diagnosis | 0.3051 | ||||
Mean (SD) | 62.5 (14.9) | 62.0 (12.7) | |||
Median (Min – Max) | 63.1 (25–91.6) | 62.2 (27.7–95.3) | |||
Menopausal status at diagnosis | 0.3404 | ||||
Menopaused | 186 | 71.0 | 1955 | 73.7 | |
Pre-menopaused | 76 | 29.0 | 697 | 26.3 | |
Unknown | 21 | 168 | |||
Germline BRCA mutation | 0.2857a | ||||
BRCA1 | 2 | 5.4 | 8 | 2.6 | |
BRCA2 | 4 | 10.8 | 23 | 7.4 | |
Undetected | 31 | 83.8 | 279 | 90.0 | |
Unknown/not performed | 246 | 2510 | |||
Axillary lymph node status (clinical) | <0.0001 | ||||
Negative | 117 | 41.8 | 2572 | 91.5 | |
Positive | 163 | 58.2 | 238 | 8.5 | |
Unknown | 3 | 10 | |||
Clinical stage (cAJCC) | <0.0001a | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.2 | |
IA | 53 | 19.0 | 2041 | 74.06 | |
IIA | 72 | 25.8 | 506 | 18.4 | |
IIB | 82 | 29.4 | 139 | 5.0 | |
IIIA | 13 | 4.6 | 19 | 0.7 | |
IIIB | 49 | 17.6 | 45 | 1.6 | |
IIIC | 10 | 3.6 | 1 | 0.04 | |
Unknown | 4 | 64 | |||
Pathological stage (pAJCC) | <0.0001a | ||||
0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.4 | |
IA | 2 | 0.7 | 1682 | 60.3 | |
IB | 1 | 0.4 | 97 | 3.5 | |
IIA | 35 | 12.4 | 648 | 23.2 | |
IIB | 38 | 13.4 | 279 | 10.0 | |
IIIA | 128 | 45.2 | 35 | 1.26 | |
IIIB | 20 | 7.1 | 36 | 1.3 | |
IIIC | 59 | 20.8 | 1 | 0.04 | |
Unknown | 0 | 32 | |||
Histological subtype | 0.0283 | ||||
Ductal | 203 | 71.7 | 2197 | 77.9 | |
Lobular | 63 | 22.3 | 454 | 16.1 | |
Other | 17 | 6.0 | 168 | 6.0 | |
Unknown | 0 | 1 | |||
Tumor grade (SBR) | <0.0001 | ||||
I | 44 | 15.7 | 1102 | 39.6 | |
II | 149 | 53.2 | 1402 | 50.3 | |
III | 87 | 31.1 | 282 | 10.1 | |
Unknown | 3 | 34 | |||
Estrogen receptor expression | 1.000a | ||||
Positive | 282 | 99.7 | 2809 | 99.6 | |
Negative | 1 | 0.3 | 11 | 0.4 | |
Progesterone receptor expression | 0.1267 | ||||
Positive | 237 | 83.7 | 2452 | 87.0 | |
Negative | 46 | 16.3 | 367 | 13.0 | |
Unknown | 0 | 1 | |||
HER2 low status | 0.0013 | ||||
0 | 104 | 36.8 | 1319 | 46.8 | |
Low (1+ ou 2+ without FISH amplification | 179 | 63.2 | 1501 | 53.2 | |
Type of breast surgery | <0.0001a | ||||
Tumorectomy | 83 | 29.3 | 2053 | 72.8 | |
Mastectomy | 200 | 70.7 | 765 | 27.1 | |
Axillary lymph node dissection alone | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.1 | |
Type of axillary surgery | <0.0001 | ||||
Axillary lymph node dissection | 236 | 83.4 | 887 | 31.8 | |
Sentinel lymph node dissection | 2 | 0.7 | 1552 | 55.7 | |
Both | 45 | 15.9 | 349 | 12.5 | |
Unknown | 0 | 32 |
SD: standard deviation, AJCC: American Joint Committee on Cancer.
Fisher's exact test.