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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2015 Mar 20;150(3):589–595. doi: 10.1007/s10549-015-3330-6

Table 1. Patient and tumor characteristics.

Characteristics Prospective cohort N = 105 Retrospective cohort N = 187 P value
Age—median (range) 55 (33, 80) 55 (28, 89) 0.699
Race—no. (%)
 White 75 (71) 130 (72) 0.925
 Black 20 (19) 36 (19)
 Other 10 (10) 21 (11)
Tumor type—no. (%)
 DCIS 11 (10) 29 (16) 0.352
 IDC 74 (70) 133 (71)
 ILC 7 (7) 13 (7)
 IMC 10 (10) 8 (4)
 Other 3 (3) 4 (2)
Tumor size—median (range) 1.4 (0.4, 8) 1.4 (0, 7.1) 0.819
Tumor grade—no. (%)
 1 14 (13) 32 (18) 0.162
 2 65 (62) 89 (50)
 3 26 (25) 57 (32)
Unknown 0 9
ER positive—no. (%) 92 (88) 158 (86) 0.724
PR positive—no. (%) 82 (78) 134 (73) 0.398
HER2 positive—no. (%) 9 (10) 20 (12) 0.682

Characteristics are shown separately for the prospective cohort and for the historical control group. P values for differences between cohorts are from Wilcoxon rank sum tests comparing continuous measures and Fisher's exact test for categorical measures

DCIS ductal carcinoma in situ, ER estrogen receptor, HER2 human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, IDC invasive ductal carcinoma, ILC invasive lobular carcinoma, IMC invasive mammary carcinoma, PR progesterone receptor