Table 2.
Summary of the T status in the different age groups
| T status | Op-SC |
Or-SC |
Diff |
Chi-square |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | % | 95% CI | P value | |
| <50 years | 439/445 | 3572/3654 | 0.025 | ||||
| T1 | 208 | 47.4 | 1740 | 48.7 | −1.3 | [−6.4, 3.7] | 0.634 |
| T2 | 174 | 39.6 | 1440 | 40.3 | −0.7 | [−5.7, 4.3] | 0.824 |
| T3 | 50 | 11.4 | 280 | 7.8 | 3.6 | [0.3, 6.8] | 0.014 |
| T4 | 7 | 1.6 | 112 | 3.1 | −1.5 | [−3.0, −0.1] | 0.1 |
| 50-69 years | 1003/1026 | 8348/8598 | <0.001 | ||||
| T1 | 548 | 54.6 | 5205 | 62.4 | −7.7 | [−11.0, −4.4] | <0.001 |
| T2 | 349 | 34.8 | 2461 | 29.5 | 5.3 | [2.2, 8.5] | <0.001 |
| T3 | 70 | 7.0 | 371 | 4.4 | 2.5 | [0.8, 4.2] | <0.001 |
| T4 | 36 | 3.6 | 311 | 3.7 | −0.1 | [−1.4, 1.1] | 0.899 |
| 70+ years | 727/811 | 6364/6984 | <0.001 | ||||
| T1 | 275 | 37.8 | 2887 | 45.4 | −7.5 | [−11.3, −3.7] | <0.001 |
| T2 | 311 | 42.8 | 2489 | 39.1 | 3.7 | [−0.2, 7.5] | 0.061 |
| T3 | 78 | 10.7 | 441 | 6.9 | 3.8 | [1.4, 6.2] | <0.001 |
| T4 | 63 | 8.7 | 547 | 8.6 | 0.1 | [−2.2, 2.3] | 1 |
Diff, difference; Op-SC, opportunistic-screening cantons; Or-SC, organized-screening cantons.
The bold numbers represent the number of actually analyzed cases in relation to the total number of breast cancers diagnosed as summarized in Table 1. The bold P values refer to the comparison of the two groups over all cancer status simultaneously of the respective age group.