Table 1. Clinicopathological characteristics of women with invasive breast cancer.
Patient Characteristics | Number |
---|---|
Total number of patients | 82 |
African American women | 48 (T=30; N=18) |
Caucasian women | 34 (T=17; N=17) |
Pathology | |
Invasive carcinoma grade I and DCIS | 3 |
Invasive carcinoma grade II | 10 |
Invasive carcinoma grade III | 25 |
Unknown | 9 |
Patient Age (years) | |
All patients | |
<50 | 10 |
>50 | 37 |
African American women | |
<50 | 7 |
>50 | 23 |
Caucasian women | |
<50 | 3 |
>50 | 14 |
ER Status | |
All patients | |
TNBC | 18 |
LABC | 29 |
African American women | |
TNBC | 13 |
LABC | 17 |
Caucasian women | |
TNBC | 5 |
LABC | 12 |
T: tumor; N: Normal adjacent tissue, TNBC= triple-negative breast cancer (ER,PR,HER2_negative); LABC =Luminal A breast cancer (ER and PR-positive and HER-2-negative).