Table 4.
Pathological Response
| Patients, n (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All patients | TNT | Standard therapy | P value | ||||
| N = 81 | N = 29 | N = 52 | |||||
| Pathological complete response | |||||||
| Yes | 14 | (17.3) | 5 | (17.2) | 9 | (17.3) | 0.835 |
| No | 67 | (82.7) | 24 | (82.8) | 43 | (82.7) | |
| Lymphovascular invasion | |||||||
| Yes | 14 | (17.5) | 6 | (21.4) | 8 | (15.4) | 0.545 |
| No | 66 | (82.5) | 22 | (78.6) | 44 | (84.6) | |
| Missing | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Extramural venous invasion | |||||||
| Yes | 15 | (18.8) | 4 | (14.3) | 11 | (21.2) | 0.557 |
| No | 65 | (81.3) | 24 | (85.7) | 41 | (78.8) | |
| Missing | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Tumor budding | |||||||
| No | 36 | (48.6) | 7 | (29.2) | 29 | (58.0) | 0.053 |
| Low | 26 | (35.1) | 13 | 54.2) | 13 | (26.0) | |
| Intermediate | 1 | (1.4) | 0 | (0.0) | 1 | (2.0) | |
| High | 11 | (14.9) | 4 | (16.7) | 7 | (14.0) | |
| Missing | 7 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| Lymph nodes | |||||||
| ≥ 12 | 16 | (21.3) | 5 | (20.0) | 11 | (22.0) | 1.000 |
| < 12 | 59 | (78.7) | 20 | (80.0) | 39 | (78.0) | |
| Missing | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||