Table 1.
Patients characteristics | TILs | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All patients | ≤5% | >5% | p-value | ||||
No. 496 | No. 323 | No. 173 | |||||
Age at diagnosis, years | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
Median [min–max] | 56.4 [27.3–89.3] | 54.8 [30.3–89.3] | 57.8 [27.3–84.3] | 0.309 | |||
Surgery | |||||||
Conservative surgery | 382 | 77.0 | 258 | 79.9 | 124 | 71.7 | 0.039 |
Mastectomy | 114 | 23.0 | 65 | 20.1 | 49 | 28.3 | |
Grade | |||||||
G1–2 | 273 | 56.3 | 215 | 68.0 | 58 | 34.3 | <0.001 |
G3 | 212 | 43.7 | 101 | 32.0 | 111 | 65.7 | |
Missing | 11 | 7 | 4 | ||||
Necrosis | |||||||
Absent | 205 | 44 | 158 | 52.0 | 47 | 29.0 | <0.001 |
Present | 261 | 56 | 146 | 48.0 | 115 | 71.0 | |
Missing | 30 | 19 | 11 | ||||
Margins | |||||||
Negative | 393 | 90.8 | 263 | 90.4 | 130 | 91.6 | 0.693 |
Close/positive | 40 | 9.2 | 28 | 9.6 | 12 | 8.4 | |
Missing | 63 | 32 | 31 | ||||
No. excisions | |||||||
1 | 445 | 91.4 | 289 | 91.8 | 156 | 90.7 | 0.694 |
≥2 | 42 | 8.6 | 26 | 8.3 | 16 | 9.3 | |
Missing | 9 | 8 | 1 | ||||
Screen detected | |||||||
No | 294 | 59.5 | 203 | 63.0 | 91 | 52.9 | 0.029 |
Yes | 200 | 40.5 | 119 | 37.0 | 81 | 47.1 | |
Missing | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Radiotherapy† | |||||||
No | 129 | 40.3 | 95 | 43.4 | 34 | 33.7 | 0.100 |
Yes | 191 | 59.7 | 124 | 56.6 | 67 | 66.3 | |
Missing | 62 | 39 | 23 |
Numbers refer to women having a conservative surgery.