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

Table 4.

Clinical and pathological tumor stages of HER2 positive patients

Tumor stage Clinical stage “cT” (sonography) Pathological stage “pT” (histology) Accordance Underdiagnosis Overdiagnosis
1a 2 (2.6%) 3 (3.9%) 2 (100%) 0 0
1b 8 (10.4%) 7 (9.1%) 5 (62.5%) 2 (25.0%) 1 (12.5%)
1c 24 (31.2%) 24 (31.2%) 17 (70.8%) 6 (25%) 1 (4.2%)
2 41 (53.2%) 40 (51.9%) 35 (85.4%) 0 6 (14.6%)
3 2 (2.6%) 3 (3.9%) 2 (100%) 0 0
total 77 (100%) 77 (100%)

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