Table 1. Patient characteristics.

	n	%
Age: median (years)	48
Age: range (years)	25–78
Menstrual status
Pre	69	59
Peri	19	16
Post	30	25
Clinical TNM stage
T2	61	52
T3	42	36
T4	15	12
Clinical node status
N0	61	52
N1	57	48
Tumour grade
G1	11	14
G2	35	44
G3	33	42
Breast
Right	64	54
Left	53	45
Bilateral	1	1
Chemotherapy regimen
FEC	91	77
AC	9	8
CAF	2	2
ECF	2	2
MMM	14	12