Table 2.
Description of surgical management in study populationa.
| Total N = 6926 |
Low nSES N = 2381 (34.4) |
Middle nSES N = 2324 (33.5) |
High nSES N = 2221 (32.1) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery Type | 0.028 | ||||
| BCSb | 1993 (28.8) | 650 (27.3) | 659 (28.4) | 684 (30.8) | |
| Mastectomy | 4933 (71.2) | 1731 (72.7) | 1665 (71.6) | 1537 (69.2) | |
| BCTc | 0.029 | ||||
| No/Unknown | 1085 (54.4) | 378 (58.2) | 335 (50.8) | 372 (54.4) | |
| Yes | 908 (45.6) | 272 (41.8) | 324 (49.2) | 312 (45.6) | |
| Mastectomy-Radiation | 0.150 | ||||
| None/Unknown | 2772 (56.2) | 1004 (58.0) | 913 (54.8) | 855 (55.6) | |
| Yes | 2161 (43.8) | 727 (42.0) | 752 (45.2) | 682 (44.4) | |
| Reconstruction | <0.001 | ||||
| No | 4200 (85.1) | 1592 (92.0) | 1412 (84.8) | 1196 (77.8) | |
| Yes | 733 (14.9) | 139 (8.0) | 253 (15.2) | 341 (22.2) | |
| BCS-lymph node Surgeryd | 0.004 | ||||
| No | 771 (39.7) | 285 (44.9) | 232 (36.5) | 254 (37.7) | |
| Yes | 1173 (60.3) | 350 (55.1) | 404 (63.5) | 419 (62.3) | |
| Mastectomy-lymph node surgerye | 0.890 | ||||
| No | 867 (18.1) | 302 (18.1) | 298 (18.4) | 267 (17.7) | |
| Yes | 3924 (81.9) | 1364 (81.9) | 1322 (81.6) | 1238 (82.3) |
a
Datapoints reported as n (%) unless specified otherwise. Data may not add up to 100 % due to rounding.
b
Breast Conservation Surgery (BCS).
c
Breast Conservation therapy (BCS + radiation).
d
This data point only includes patients who underwent breast conservation surgery.
e
This data point only includes patients who underwent mastectomy.