Table 3.
Breast surgery by clinical T category at presentation
| T0/T1 (n = 100) |
T2 (n = 383) |
T3 (n = 178) |
T4 (n = 32) |
P Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | <0.0001 | ||||
| BCS | 41 (41.8) | 188 (49.1) | 44 (24.7) | 4 (12.5) | |
| Mastectomy | 57 (58.2) | 195 (50.9) | 134 (75.3) | 28 (87.5) | |
| Surgery | <0.0001 | ||||
| BCS | 41 (41.8) | 188 (49.1) | 44 (24.7) | 4 (12.5) | |
| BCS converted to mastectomy | 1 (1.0) | 7 (1.8) | 6 (3.4) | 0 | |
| Mastectomy | 56 (57.1) | 188 (49.1) | 128 (71.9) | 28 (87.5) | |
| Number of surgeries (all patients) | 0.040 | ||||
| 1 | 98 (98.0) | 350 (91.4) | 162 (91.0) | 32 (100.0) | |
| 2 or more | 2 (2.0) | 33 (8.6) | 16 (9.0) | 0 | |
| Number of surgeries (patients with BCS as first surgery) | 0.038 | ||||
| 1 | |||||
| 2 or more | 40 (95.2) | 165 (84.6) | 37 (74.0) | 4 (100.0) | |
| 2 (4.8) | 30 (15.4) | 13 (26.0) | 0 | ||
| pCR in breast only | 41 (41.0) | 138 (36.0) | 52 (29.2) | 2 (6.3) | 0.001 |
| pCR in axilla only | 44 (44.0) | 157 (41.0) | 76 (42.7) | 8 (25.0) | 0.27 |
BCS, breast-conserving surgery.