Table 1.
Characteristics | Patients, n (%) 1 |
---|---|
Age at diagnosis, mean ± S.D. 2 (years) | 51.7 ± 9.4 |
Menopausal status | |
Premenopausal | 46 (46) |
Postmenopausal | 55 (55) |
Missing data | 4 |
Tumor size (pT) | |
pTis | 8 (8) |
pT1 | 50 (48) |
pT2 | 40 (39) |
pT3 | 5 (5) |
pTX | 2 |
Lymph node metastasis (pN) | |
Absent (pN0) | 68 (65) |
Present (pN1–3) | 37 (35) |
Pathological stage | |
SI | 46 (44) |
SII | 47 (45) |
SIII | 12 (11) |
Histological type | |
Invasive ductal carcinoma | 88 (84) |
Other type | 17 (16) 4 |
Pathological grade (G) | |
G1 | 11 (11) |
G2 | 35 (35) |
G3 | 54 (54) |
GX | 5 |
Estrogen receptor status | |
Positive | 38 (38) |
Negative | 61 (62) |
Missing data | 6 |
Progesterone receptor status | |
Positive | 39 (39) |
Negative | 60 (61) |
Missing data | 6 |
Expression of HER2 | |
Positive | 2 (2) |
Negative | 97 (97) |
Missing data | 6 |
Expression of Ki-67, mean ± S.D. 2 (%) | 32.9 ± 20.3 |
Molecular subtype | |
Luminal A | 15 (16) |
Luminal B | 23 (24) |
Triple negative | 58 (60) |
Missing data | 9 |
Response to neoadjuvant cytotoxic therapy | |
Complete or partial response | 47 (69) |
Stable disease or progression | 21 (31) |
Not applicable 3 | 37 |
Footnotes: 1 Number of patients with % in parentheses; 2 S.D. = standard deviation; 3 patients treated with adjuvant therapy without neoadjuvant cytotoxic therapy; 4 six lobular, six medullary, two metaplastic, one mucinous, one papillary, and one neuroendocrine invasive carcinomas.