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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2009 Mar 15;115(6):1194–1202. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24154

Table 1.

Patient and Tumor Characteristics

Feature Value
Median age (range) 50 (29–68)
Ethnicity (%)
     White 28 (62%)
     Black 2 (4%)
     Hispanic 8 (18%)
     Asian 7 (16%)
Tumor Stage [total (%)]
     T3 31 (69%)
     T4a–c 4 (9%)
     T4d 10 (22%)
Tumor Histology (%)
     IDC 37 (82%)
     ILC 8 (18%)
Histological Differentiation (%)
     Well 5 (11%)
     Moderate 12 (27%)
     Poor 25 (55%)
     Not Specified 3 (7%)
Nuclear Grade (%)
     High 23 (51%)
     Intermediate 10 (23%)
     Low 6 (13%)
     Not Specified 6 (13%)
Lymphvascular Invasion (%)
     Present 16 (35%)
     Absent 26 (58%)
     Not Specified 3 (7%)
Estrogen/Progesterone receptor (ER/PR) status (%)
     ER+ / PR + 18 (40%)
     ER+ / PR − 9 (20%)
     ER− / PR + 1 (2%)
     ER− / PR− 17 (38%)
HER2/neu status (%)
     HER2/neu + 20 (44%)
     HER2/neu 25 (56%)

Note: IDC = infiltrating ductal carcinoma; ILC = infiltrating lobular carcinoma