Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2012 Nov 20;26(5):569–577. doi: 10.1002/nbm.2893

Table 1.

Patient and tumor characteristics. IDC indicates invasive ductal carcinoma. DCIS indicates ductal carcinoma in situ.

Characteristic No. of Patients (%)
No. of patients 26
‘Staging’ patients 22 (85)
 ‘High-risk’ patients 4 (15)
No. of lesions 27
 Malignant lesions 18 (67)
  Mean age [range], y 53.7 [41–70]
  Mean tumor size (A-P x S-I), cm 2.5 × 2.4
 Tumor type and grade
  IDC w/DCIS 7 (39)
IDC 8 (44)
  Invasive mucinous cancer 1 (5.6)
  Adenoid cystic carcinoma 1 (5.6)
  Invasive lobular carcinoma 1 (5.6)
 Benign lesions 9 (33)
  Mean age [range], y 49.9 [37–64]
  Mean tumor size (A-P x S-I), cm 1.1 × 0.8
 Tumor type
Fibroadenoma 8 (89)
  Fat necrosis 1 (11)