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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Jul 12;183(2):403–410. doi: 10.1007/s10549-020-05780-6

Table 1.

Frequency of breast cancer shapes1

Parameter N Sphere Disk Segmental Irregular p
All cases 83 16 (19%) 28 (34%) 24 (29%) 15 (18%)
DCIS2 8 0 4 (50%) 4 (50%) 0 0.15
Invasive 75 16 (21%) 24 (32%) 20 (27%) 15 (20%)
• IDC 64 15 (23%) 20 (31%) 16 (25%) 13 (20%) 0.81
• ILC 11 1 (9%) 4 (36%) 4 (25%) 2 (13%)
1

Table partially contains data previously published in prior publication materials (Barth, 2019, Ann Surg Oncol). Full permission to utilize the previously published dataset was obtained.

2

Abbrevations: DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ ; IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma ; ILC, invasive lobular carcinoma ; ER(+), estrogen receptor positive; HER2(+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 positive