Table 2.
Distribution of information related to the tumor and treatment of breast cancer of 97 women according to the presence and absence of AWS (cords)-Cancer Hospital of Pernambuco – December 2011-July 2012
| Variables related to the tumor and treatment | AWS (cords) | Total (n=97) | P Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present (n=28) | Absent (n=69) | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Mamary lateralization | 0.701† | ||||||
| Right | 13 | 46.43 | 35 | 50.72 | 48 | 49.49 | |
| Left | 15 | 53.57 | 34 | 49.28 | 49 | 50.51 | |
| Clinical stage of the breast cancer at the time of diagnosis | 0.910† | ||||||
| Initial | 19 | 67.86 | 46 | 66.67 | 65 | 67.01 | |
| Advanced | 9 | 32.14 | 23 | 33.33 | 32 | 32.99 | |
| Type of surgery‡ | 0.856† | ||||||
| Modificed radical mastectomy | 20 | 71.43 | 49 | 71.01 | 69 | 71.13 | |
| Quadrantectomy with axillary dissection | 5 | 17.86 | 9 | 13.04 | 14 | 14.43 | |
| Mastectomy with examination of SLN | 3 | 10.71 | 6 | 8.70 | 9 | 9.28 | |
| Quadrantectomy with examination of SLN | - | - | 5 | 7.25 | 5 | 5.16 | |
| Non-surgerical therapy¶ | 0.791† | ||||||
| Not started | 15 | 53.57 | 39 | 56.52 | 54 | 55.67 | |
| Neoadjuvant chemotherapy | 8 | 28.57 | 13 | 18.84 | 21 | 21.65 | |
| Adjuvant chemotherapy | 5 | 17.86 | 17 | 24.64 | 21 | 21.68 | |
| Adjuvant radiotherapy | 3 | 11.1 | 9 | 13.0 | 12 | 12.5 | |
Legend: * - For the variables were considered, exclusively, the examination of the sentinal lymph node and axillary dissection.
P Value calculated by: * Fisher exact test; † - chi-squared test.
‡ - Chi-squared test comparing modified mastectomy to quandrantectomy with axillary dissection.
¶ - Percentages calculated based on the total number of patients of each group, as the same patient may undergo more than one treatment.