Table 1.
Patients characteristics
| Number | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| Hospital | ||
| Dijon | 271 | 71.1 |
| Nancy | 74 | 19.4 |
| Reims | 18 | 4.7 |
| Strasbourg | 18 | 4.7 |
| Inclusion criteria | ||
| Confirmed primary breast cancer | 242 | 63.5 |
| Suspicion of primary breast cancer | 138 | 36.2 |
| Unknown | 1 | 0.3 |
| Cancer | ||
| Confirmed | 337 | 89.2 |
| Not confirmed | 41 | 10.0 |
| Unknown | 3 | 0.8 |
| Stage (AJCC) | ||
| 0 | 78 | 20.5 |
| 1 | 135 | 35.4 |
| 2 | 118 | 31 |
| 3 or 4 | 15 | 4 |
| Unknown | 35 | 9.1 |
| Lymph node dissection (LND) | ||
| Axillary LND | 138 | 36.2 |
| Sentinel lymph node biopsy | 131 | 34.4 |
| ALND + SLNB | 32 | 8.4 |
| No LND | 75 | 19.7 |
| Unknown | 5 | 1.3 |
| Surgery type | ||
| Mastectomy | 124 | 32.6 |
| No mastectomy | 241 | 63.3 |
| Unknown | 16 | 4.2 |
| Chemotherapy | ||
| Yes | 155 | 40.7 |
| No | 218 | 57.2 |
| Unknown | 8 | 2.1 |
| Radiotherapy | ||
| Yes | 254 | 66.7 |
| No | 119 | 31.2 |
| Unknown | 8 | 2.1 |
| Hormone therapy | ||
| Yes | 170 | 44.6 |
| No | 203 | 53.3 |
| Unknown | 8 | 2.1 |