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. 2021 Dec 30;13:9453–9466. doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S321192

Table 3.

Tumor Characteristic of Patients Undergoing One-Stage and Two-Stage Approaches

One-Stage (78) Two-Stage (27) p-value
Mean tumor size (mm) (on pre-op imaging) 30.7 39.9 0.003
Total number of patients 78 27
DCIS only 4 4 (1 with microinvasion)
Invasive cancers 74$ 23
Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy 11 5
Chemotherapy (adjuvant and NAC) 46* (61%) 14 (64%)
Her-2 positive cancers 12 (16%) 4 (18%)
Node positive cancers 35 (47%) 12 (54%)
TNBC 15 (18%) 3 (14%)

Notes: * Three declined. $ One patient had metastatic cancer.