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. 2018 Apr 10;9(2):33–41. doi: 10.5306/wjco.v9.i2.33

Table 2.

Association between response and Clinical-pathological features regarding molecular subtype n (%)

Lum A Lum B HER2 TN
Total pCR P value Total pCR P value Total pCR P value Total pCR P value
107 13 165 12 77 10 86 13
Age (yr) 1.000 0.315 0.507 0.157
median (range) 47 (28-75) 46 (28-62) 51 (25-84) 52 (39-69) 51 (28-80) 46 (29-80) 49 (26-73) 45 (28-68)
< 50 72 (67) 9 (13) 78 (48) 4 (5) 37 (48) 6 (16.2) 44 (48) 9 (20)
≥ 50 35 (33) 4 (11) 87 (52) 8 (9) 40 (52) 4 (10) 42 (52) 4 (10)
Histological subtypes 0.349 1.000 0.434 0.392
Ductal 97 (91) 11 (11) 153 (93) 11 (7) 73 (95) 9 (12.3) 83 (97) 12 (14)
Lobular and others 10 (9) 2 (20) 12 (7) 1 (8) 4 (5) 1 (25) 3 (3) 1 (33)
Histological grade - 0.213 0.266 1.000
G1-G2 103 (97) 12 (12) 61 (39) 2 (3) 23 (30) 1 (4.3) 13 (15) 2 (15)
G3 - - 102 (61) 10 (10) 53 (69) 9 (17) 72 (85) 10 (14)
NR 4 (3) 1 (25) 2 (1) 0 (0) 1 (1) 0 (0) 1 (0) 1 (100)
Tumor size (cm) 0.102 0.213 0.511 0.620
Median (range) 6 (2-15) 5 (2-9) 7 (2-20) 6 (2-12) 7 (2.5-14) 6 (4-12) 7 (1-24) 8 (3-15)
cT1-cT2 10 (7) 3 (30) 12 (7) 2 (17) 5 (6) 1 (20) 9 (10) 2 (22)
cT3-cT4 97 (93) 10 (10) 153 (93) 10 (7) 72 (94) 9 (12.5) 77 (90) 11 (14)
cN 0.306 0.222 0.270 0.021
cN0 27 (23) 5 (19) 28 (18) 0 (0) 53 (69) 5 (9.4) 14 (14) 4 (29)
cN1-cN2–cN3 80 (77) 8 (10) 137 (82) 12 (9) 24 (31) 5 (20.8) 72 (86) 9 (13)
Clinical stage 0.471 0.652 1.000 0.122
EC II 23 (20) 4 (17) 21 (12) 2 (10) 11 (14) 1 (9.1) 17 (16) 5 (29)
EC III 84 (80) 9 (11) 144 (88) 10 (7) 66 (86) 9 (13.6) 69 (84) 8 (12)
sTIL% 0.054 0.750 0.150 1.000
Median (range) 30 (2-90) 50 (10-90) 40 (5-90) 30 (8-90) 60 (5-95) 80 (30-95) 45 (2-90) 50 (5-80)
< 50 71 (69) 6 (8) 98 (60) 6 (6) 25 (32) 1 (4) 40 (47) 6 (15)
≥ 50 30 (24) 7 (23) 61 (37) 5 (8) 50 (66) 9 (18) 40 (47) 6 (15)
Missing data 6 (6) 0 (0) 6 (3) 1 (17) 2 (3) 0 (0) 6 (7) 1 (17)
TLCS (d) 0.233 0.238 0.744 0.500
Median (range) 67 (14-458) 80 (16-281) 61 (5-412) 54 (8-140) 60 (11-240) 66 (37-106) 64 (8-982) 66 (14-122)
Shorter than median 49 (48) 4 (8) 77 (45) 8 (10) 41 (53) 5 (12.2) 40 (48) 5 (13)
Longer than median 57 (51) 9 (16) 76 (47) 4 (5) 33 (43) 5 (15.2) 45 (51) 8 (18)
Missing data 1 (1) 0 (0) 12 (8) 0 (0) 3 (4) 0 (0) 1 (1) 0 (0)
Relapse 0.121 0.753 0.300 < 0.001
No 87 (79) 13 (15) 109 (65) 9 (8) 46 (60) 8 (17.4) 42 (41) 12 (29)
Yes 20 (21) 0 (0) 56 (35) 3 (5) 31 (40) 2 (6.5) 44 (59) 1 (2)

TIL: Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes; TLCS: Time-From-Last-Chemotherapy-To-Surgery.