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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2014 May 24;89(4):899–906. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.03.036

Table 1.

Baseline Patient and Tumor Characteristics (n=404)

03–30 (N=90) 05–181 (N=314) All patients (N=404) P-Value*

Age mean +/− SD 56.83 +/− 12.33 56.48 +/− 11.14 56.56 +/− 11.40 0.80

Tumor size (mm) mean +/− SD 13.64 +/− 12.09 12.76 +/− 13.58 12.96 +/− 7.41 0.32

Stage I 67 (74%) 223 (71%) 290 (72%) 0.51
IIA 19 (21%) 82 (26%) 101 (25%)
IIB 4 (4%) 9 (3%) 13 (3%)

Tumor Stage T1 77 (86%) 260 (83%) 337 (83%) 0.54
T2 13 (14%) 54 (17%) 67 (17%)

Histology Invasive Ductal 72 (80%) 265 (84%) 337 (83%) 0.57
Invasive Lobular 9 (10%) 27 (9%) 36 (9%)
Other 9 (10%) 22 (7%) 31 (8%)

Nodal Status Negative 75 (83%) 267 (85%) 342 (85%) 0.69
Positive 15 (17%) 47 (15%) 62 (15%)

Tumor estrogen receptor status Negative 15 (17%) 57 (18%) 72 (18%) 0.75
Positive 75 (83%) 257 (82%) 332 (82%)

Tumor progesterone receptor status Negative 36 (40%) 123 (39%) 159 (39%) 0.89
Positive 54 (60%) 191 (61%) 245 (61%)

Tumor Her2/Neu Status Negative 85 (94%) 273 (90%) 358 (89%) 0.18
Positive 5 (6%) 31 (10%) 36 (9%)
Not Performed 10 10 (2%)

Breast Laterality Left 50 (56%) 157 (50%) 207 (51%) 0.35
Right 40 (44%) 157 (50%) 197 (49%)

Treatment position, based on optimal sparing of OAR Prone 90 (100%) 283 (90%) 373 (92%) 0.002
Supine 0 31 (10%) 31 (8%)

Chemotherapy Yes 30 (33%) 118 (38%) 148 (37%) 0.46
No 60 (67%) 196 (62%) 256 (63%)

Antihormonal Therapy Yes 41 (46%) 118 (38%) 159 (39%) 0.17
No 49 (54%) 196 (62%) 245 (61%)
*

2-sample t-tests (2-sided) for continuous variables; chi-square tests for categorical variables.