TABLE 1.

Characteristics of patients and tumors with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC)

		N	%
Total patients with TNBC		23	100
Stage prior to PET/CT*
	I	23	10
	IIA	82	35
	IIB	87	38
	IIIA	23	10
	IIIB	14	6
	IIIC	3	1
			100
Race
	Caucasian	153	66
	African American	49	21
	Asian	21	9
	Other/Unknown	9	4
			100
Histology
	IDC	217	94
	ILC	2	1
	Mixed IDC/ILC	5	2
	Other	8	3
			100
Tumor Grade
	High	217	94
	Intermediate	8	3
	Unknown	7	3
			100

IDC = invasive ductal cancer; ILC = invasive lobular cancer.

^*Clinical classification according to the seventh edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual [25].