Table 3.
Patient characteristics at diagnosis according to pathological complete response
| pCRa | Non-pCR | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of patients | 57 | 245 | |
| Age | median (IQR) | 55 (44–65) | 53 (44–62) |
| BMI | median (IQR) | 25 (22–28) | 25 (23–28) |
| Number of pregnancies | 0 | 4 (7.0) | 34 (13.9) |
| 1 | 9 (15.8) | 37 (15.1) | |
| 2 | 16 (28.1) | 85 (34.7) | |
| 3+ | 28 (49.1) | 87 (35.5) | |
| missing | 2 (0.8) | ||
| Age at first birth | median (IQR) | 29 (23–33) | 28 (25–33) |
| Age at menarche | median (IQR) | 13 (12–13) | 13 (12–14) |
| Menopausal status | postmenopausal | 35 (61.4) | 131 (53.5) |
| premenopausal | 22 (38.6) | 114 (46.5) | |
| Smoking | current | 11 (19.3) | 41 (16.7) |
| former | 9 (15.8) | 21 (8.6) | |
| never | 32 (56.1) | 164 (66.9) | |
| missing | 5 (8.8) | 19 (7.8) | |
| Hormone replacement therapy | current | 4 (7.0) | 5 (2.0) |
| former | 10 (17.5) | 27 (11.0) | |
| never | 43 (75.4) | 209 (85.3) | |
| missing | 4 (1.6) | ||
| Oral contraceptives | current | 4 (7.0) | 32 (13.1) |
| former | 15 (26.3) | 65 (26.5) | |
| never | 22 (38.6) | 103 (42.0) | |
| missing | 16 (28.1) | 45 (18.4) |
apathological complete response