Table 2.
No. of patients | Values | % | Comments | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Continuous variables | ||||
Age at diagnosis (years) | ||||
Median | 63 | |||
Range | 26–101 | |||
No. of patients | 1884 | |||
Follow-up time (months) | ||||
Median | 62 | |||
Range | 1–176 | |||
No. of patients | 2221 | |||
Tumor diameter (mm) | ||||
Median | 24 | |||
Range | 2–140 | |||
No. of patients | 2173 | |||
Discrete variables | ||||
Lymph node status | ||||
0 | 503 | 46.1 | ||
1 | 511 | 46.9 | ||
2 | 76 | 7.0 | ||
Unknown | 204 | |||
Tumor grade | ||||
I | 276 | 23.2 | ||
II | 449 | 37.7 | ||
III | 466 | 39.1 | ||
Unknown | 103 | |||
TIMP-4 status | ||||
0 | 635 | 49.1 | ||
I | 437 | 33.8 | ||
II | 197 | 15.2 | ||
III | 25 | 1.9 | ||
ER status | ||||
Positive | 972 | 77.3 | ||
Negative | 285 | 22.7 | ||
Unknown | 37 | |||
Histological type | ||||
IDC | 1294 | Analyzable | ||
Other | 489 | |||
IDC tumor size | ||||
≤20 mm | 460 | |||
≥20 mm | 834 | |||
Node status in IDC ≤20 mm (T1) | Used in study of all T1N0 | |||
N0 | 314 | |||
N1–N3 | 146 | |||
ER status among T1N0 | ||||
ER-positive | 158 | |||
ER-negative | 156 | Used in study of ER-negative T1N0 |