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Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 Jul 21;28(10):5544–5552. doi: 10.1245/s10434-021-10461-9

TABLE 2.

Treatment, adjuvant therapy, National Cancer Data Base, 2004–2016

All patients (N = 94,487) Locoregional advanced (N = 12,325) CAM (N = 122) M1 (N = 82,040) p
Surgery type
Lumpectomy 9,230 (9.8%) 2,690 (21.8%) 19 (15.6%) 6,521 (7.9%)
Mastectomy 24,112 (25.5%) 9,635 (78.2%) 103 (84.4%) 14,374 (17.5%)
No surgery 60,640 (64.2%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 60,640 (73.9%)
Other 505 (0.5%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 505 (0.6%)
Lymph node surgery
# LNs examined – median (IQR) 11 (3 – 17) 15 (10 – 21) 10 (5 – 14.5) 7 (1 – 14) < 0.001
# Positive LNs – median (IQR) 3 (1 – 10) 9 (1 – 14) 3 (1 – 8) 2 (1 – 6) < 0.001
Receipt of chemotherapy 53,248 (56.4%) 11,658 (94.6%) 116 (95.1%) 41,474 (50.6%) < 0.001
Receipt of endocrine therapy 47,427 (50.2%) 6,884 (55.9%) 68 (55.7%) 40,475 (49.3%) < 0.001
Receipt of radiation therapy 39,168 (41.5%) 12,325 (100%) 122 (100%) 26,721 (32.6%)

Variable used in study group definition

Data presented as N (%) unless otherwise specified. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding or missing values