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. 2024 Sep 2;310(5):2623–2630. doi: 10.1007/s00404-024-07699-5

Table 1.

Clinical and pathological tumor stages

Tumor stage Clinical stage “cT” (sonography) Pathological stage “pT” (histology) Accordance Underdiagnosis Overdiagnosis
1a 72 (2.9%) 89 (3.6%) 55 (76.4%) 17 (23.6%) 0
1b 359 (14.5%) 368 (14.9%) 274 (76.3%) 64 (17.8%) 21 (5.8%)
1c 1146 (46.2%) 979 (39.5%) 823 (71.8%) 239 (20.9%) 84 (7.3%)
2 864 (34.9%) 972 (39.2%) 715 (82.8%) 37 (4.3%) 112 (13%)
3 37 (1.5%) 68 (2.7%) 29 (78.4%) 0 8 (21.6%)
4 0 2 (0.1)
total 2478 (100%) 2478 (100%)

Numbers are presented as frequencies (= n) and percentages (%). Accordance of tumor stage, underdiagnosis and overdiagnosis refers to clinical stage “cT”