Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 3.
Published in final edited form as: Mod Pathol. 2011 Oct 7;25(2):260–271. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.146

Table 5.

Distribution of clinicopathologic factors by nuclear grade

Variables All patients Grade I Grade II Grade III P-value
All patients (%) 232 (100) 107 (46) 91 (39) 34 (15)
Age (years) 0.867
 Median 64 62 61 61
 Range 29–85 34–85 29–79 35–81
Gender (%) 0.043
 Female 64 (28) 34 (32) 26 (29) 4 (12)
 Male 168 (72) 73 (68) 65 (71) 30 (88)
Laterality (%) 0.810
 Left 104 (45) 49 (46) 40 (44) 15 (44)
 Right 128 (55) 58 (54) 51 (56) 19 (56)
Lymphatic invasion (%) <0.001
 Absence 130 (56) 77 (72) 43 (47) 10 (29)
 Presence 102 (44) 30 (28) 48 (53) 24 (71)
Vascular invasion (%) <0.001
 Absence 178 (77) 100 (93) 67 (74) 11 (32)
 Presence 54 (23) 7 (7) 24 (26) 23 (68)
T stage (%) 0.065
 T1–2 108 (47) 52 (49) 48 (53) 8 (24)
 T3–4 124 (53) 55 (51) 43 (47) 26 (76)
N stage (%) 0.054
 N0 139 (60) 73 (68) 47 (52) 19 (56)
 N1–3 93 (40) 34 (32) 44 (48) 15 (44)
Stage (%) 0.003
 I–II 68 (29) 39 (36) 26 (29) 3 (9)
 III–IV 164 (71) 68 (64) 65 (71) 31 (91)