Table 1. Patient characteristics.

Variable	N	%
Total number of patients	88
Age, median (range), years	52 (26–78)
Stage
I	9	10
II	17	19
III	45	51
IV	10	12
Unknown	7	8
IBC status
Non-IBC	49	56
IBC	39	44
Histology
Invasive ductal carcinoma	80	91
Invasive lobular carcinoma	4	5
Other	4	5
Nuclear grade
I	3	3
II	14	16
III	68	77
Unknown	3	3
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (for stage I-III disease, 71 patients)
Received	50	70
Not received	20	28
Unknown	1	2

IBC, inflammatory breast cancer.