Table 8. Comparison of Sarcosine Metabolic Phenotypes between Luminal-Type IDC and ILC.
Metabolic phenotypes | Total, n=586 (%) | IDC, luminal type, n=472 (%) | ILC, n=114 (%) | p value |
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Sarcosine metabolic type | <0.001 | |||
High sarcosine type | 29 (4.9) | 28 (5.9) | 1 (0.9) | |
Intermediate sarcosine type | 24 (4.1) | 18 (3.8) | 6 (5.3) | |
Low sarcosine type | 217 (37.0) | 147 (31.1) | 70 (61.4) | |
Null type | 316 (53.9) | 279 (59.1) | 37 (32.5) |
IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma; ILC, invasive lobular carcinoma.