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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2016 Oct 3;160(2):291–296. doi: 10.1007/s10549-016-4005-7

Table 2.

Characteristics of patients, overall and by receipt of radiation therapy. P values for differences between patients who did and did not receive radiation therapy.

All Patients Received RT Omission of RT P
N = 117 N = 74 N = 43
Age – mean (SD) 76.3 (5.68) 74.7 (4.61) 78.9 (6.41) < 0.001
Age -median (range) 75 (70, 95) 73 (70, 87) 78 (70, 95) < 0.001
Age -no. (%)
  70–74 58 (49.6) 44 (59.5) 14 (32.6) 0.007
  75 or older 59 (50.4) 30 (40.5) 29 (67.4)
Race -no. (%)
  Caucasian 83 (72.2) 54 (74) 29 (69) 0.408
  African American Asian 25 (21.7) 13 (17.8) 12 (28.6)
  Other 1 (0.9) 1 (1.4) 0 (0)
  Unknown 6 (5.2) 5 (6.8) 1 (2.4)
2 1 1
Tumor size (cm) -median (range) 1 (0.2, 2) 1.1 (0.2, 2) 1 (0.2, 1.8) 0.362
Tumor grade -no. (%)
  I 30 (25.9) 18 (24.7) 12 (27.9) 0.675
  II 77 (66.4) 48 (65.8) 29 (67.4)
  III 9 (7.8) 7 (9.6) 2 (4.7)
  Unknown 1 1 0
Tumor histology -no. (%)
  Ductal 87 (74.4) 55 (74.3) 32 (74.4) 0.353
  Lobular 17 (14.5) 13 (17.6) 4 (9.3)
  Mixed 11 (9.4) 5 (6.8) 6 (14)
  Other 2 (1.7) 1 (1.4) 1 (2.3)
LN Biopsy -no. (%)
  Not done, clinically negative 21 (17.9) 6 (8.1) 15 (34.9) < 0.001
  Done, negative 96 (82.1) 68 (91.9) 28 (65.1)

LN: lymph node

RT: radiation therapy

cm: centimeter