Table 1.
Patient and cancer characteristics and breast cancer treatments (n=297)
| n or Median | % or Range | |
| Patient characteristics | ||
| Age (years) | 50 | 27–77 |
| Marital status | ||
| Single | 54 | 18.2 |
| Married | 153 | 51.5 |
| Divorced | 39 | 13.1 |
| Widow | 3 | 1 |
| NA | 48 | 16.2 |
| Breast cancer characteristics | ||
| Modes of diagnosis | ||
| Organised screening | 60 | 20.2 |
| Individual screening | 114 | 38.4 |
| Clinical signs | 123 | 41.4 |
| Type of cancer | ||
| Invasive | 261 | 87.9 |
| In situ | 35 | 11.8 |
| NA | 1 | 0.3 |
| Lymph node involvement | ||
| Yes | 75 | 25.3 |
| No | 222 | 74.7 |
| Surgery | ||
| Breast surgery | ||
| Conservative | 220 | 74.1 |
| Radical | 77 | 25.9 |
| Lymph node surgery | ||
| Sentinel lymph node procedure | 203 | 68.4 |
| Axillary dissection | 72 | 24.2 |
| NA | 22 | 7.4 |
| Surgical revision | ||
| No | 227 | 76.4 |
| 1 | 60 | 20.2 |
| >1 | 10 | 3.4 |
| Type of hospitalisation | ||
| Outpatient surgery | 107 | 36 |
| Conventional surgery | 190 | 64 |
| Adjuvant therapies | ||
| Radiotherapy | ||
| No | 27 | 9.1 |
| Yes | 270 | 90.9 |
| Chemotherapy | ||
| Yes | 143 | 48.1 |
| No | 154 | 51.9 |
| Trastuzumab | ||
| Yes | 36 | 12.1 |
| No | 100 | 33.7 |
| NA | 161 | 54.2 |
| Hormone therapy | ||
| Yes | 220 | 74.1 |
| No | 77 | 25.9 |