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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2013 Jun 18;139(3):639–647. doi: 10.1007/s10549-013-2598-7

Table 1.

Clinicopathologic Features in 1187 Patients with Pure DCIS by ER status

Feature All Patients ER-negative DCIS (N=215) ER-positive DCIS (N=972) P Value

Age, years, mean (SD) 56 (11) 57 (11) 55 (11) 0.008

Size at pathology, cm, mean (SD)1 2.5 (2.6) 2.8 (2.5) 2.4 (2.7) 0.057

Postmenopausal status2 857 (72) 172 (81) 685 (71) 0.003

Hormone replacement therapy 418 (35) 86 (40) 332 (34) 0.105

Presentation 3 0.083
 Clinical symptom 165 (14) 38 (18) 127 (13)
 Radiologic finding 1016 (86) 177 (82) 839 (87)

Bilateral cancer 46 (4) 7 (3) 39 (4) 0.603

Type of contralateral breast cancer 0.659
 DCIS 36 (77) 5 (71) 31 (78)
 Invasive cancer 11 (23) 2 (29) 9 (23)

Multifocal4 142 (16) 41 (23) 101 (15) 0.009

Multicentric5 152 (17) 42 (23) 110 (15) 0.014

Grade 6 <0.0001
 1 104 (9) 4 (2) 100 (10)
 2 450 (38) 11 (5) 439 (45)
 3 629 (53) 199 (93) 430 (44)

Histology <0.0001
 Solid 239 (20) 85 (40) 154 (16)
 Papillary 22 (2) 1 (0) 21 (2)
 Micropapillary 41 (4) 8 (4) 33 (3)
 Cribriform 133 (11) 7 (3) 126 (13)
 Combination 696 (59) 99 (46) 597 (61)
 Not specified 56 (4) 15 (7) 41 (4)

Comedonecrosis7 398 (36) 134 (64) 264 (29) <0.0001

Surgery type 0.008
 Segmentectomy 724 (61) 114 (53) 610 (63)
 Mastectomy 463 (39) 101 (47) 362 (37)

Note.—Unless otherwise indicated, data are numbers of patients (percentages).

1

Not recorded in 211 patients.

2

Not recorded in 4 patients.

3

Not recorded in 6 patients.

4

Not recorded in 316 patients.

5

Not recorded in 271 patients.

6

Not recorded in 4 patients.

7

Not recorded in 70 patients.