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. 2020 Mar 14;12(3):e7269. doi: 10.7759/cureus.7269

Table 1. Patient and tumour characteristics.

ODX group, patients with cancers that were genetically profiled through Oncotype DX testing; non-ODX group, patients that did not have Oncotype DX testing.

Abbreviation: Oncotype DX (ODX)

  All patients ODX group Non-ODX group
Patients, N 133 46 87
Age (years), mean 62 56 65
Disease identified through symptoms, n (%) 68 (51.1%) 32 (69.6%) 36 (41.4%)
Disease detected through screening, n (%) 65 (48.9%) 14 (30.4) 51 (58.6%)
Single-site disease, n (%) 119 (89.5%) 38 (82.6%) 81 (93.1%)
Multifocal disease, n (%) 14 (10.5%) 8 (17.4%) 6 (6.9%)
Tumours, n 152 57 95
Tumour size (cm), median 2.0 2.4 1.6
T1a (<5mm), n (%) 3 (1.9%) 1 (1.8%) 2 (2.1%)
T1b (<10mm), n (%) 16 (10.2%) 3 (5.3%) 13 (13.7%)
T1c (<20mm), n (%) 52 (33.1%) 13 (22.8%) 39 (41.1%)
T2 (>20mm), n (%) 72 (45.9%) 32 (56.1%) 40 (42.1%)
T3 (>50mm), n (%) 9 (5.9%) 8 (14.0%) 1 (1.1%)
T4 (>50mm with chest wall or skin invasion), n (%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Tumour grade, median 2 3 2
Grade 1, n (%) 28 (18.4%) 2 (3.5%) 26 (27.4%)
Grade 2, n (%) 81 (53.3%) 26 (45.6%) 55 (57.9%)
Grade 3, n (%) 43 (28.3%) 29 (50.9%) 14 (14.7%)