Table 2.
Clinical and histopathologic data for matched stage II and IIIA breast cancer patients
aDerived from a Fisher's exact test for categorical variables and a two-sample t-test for continuous variables.
bFive patients in the adjuvant chemotherapy group and six patients in the preoperative chemotherapy group did not have a histologic grade assigned either because it was an ILC or not done.
cHormone receptor and HER-2/neu not expressed/not amplified.
Abbreviations: FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization; HER-2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; IHC, immunohistochemistry; ILC, infiltrating lobular carcinoma; ND, not done; SD, standard deviation.
