Table II.
Patient and tumor characteristics of the breast cancer cases (n=52).
| Characteristics | n |
|---|---|
| Age (years) | |
| Mean | 53.4 |
| Range | 26–75 |
| Sex | |
| Male | 1 |
| Female | 51 |
| Tumora | |
| T1 | 7 |
| T2 | 24 |
| T3 | 7 |
| T4 | 14 |
| Lymph node metastasisa | |
| N0 | 2 |
| N1 | 41 |
| N2 | 7 |
| N3 | 2 |
| Stagea | |
| I | 0 |
| II | 27 |
| III | 23 |
| IV | 2 |
| Histological classification | |
| Invasive ductal carcinoma | 41 |
| Non-invasive carcinoma | 1 |
| Mucinous carcinoma | 2 |
| Medullary carcinoma | 1 |
| Metaplastic carcinoma | 2 |
| Invasive micropapillary carcinoma | 1 |
| Spindle cell carcinoma | 1 |
| Others | 1 |
| Missing | 2 |
| Subtype | |
| Luminal | 21 |
| HER2 | 5 |
| Triple-negative | 17 |
| Luminal + HER2 | 8 |
a
Tumor, lymph node metastasis and stage are according to the TNM lassification for breast cancer (UICC, 7th edition).