Table 3. Clinical stage distribution of breast cancer according to age.
| Periods | Years | cStage | p-value | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | I | IIA | IIB | IIIA | IIIB | IIIC | IV | Total | ||||
| Patients younger than 65 years | ||||||||||||
| Period A | 2020 | 85 (22.7) | 103 (27.5) | 99 (26.4) | 55 (14.7) | 13 (3.5) | 3 (0.8) | 6 (1.6) | 11 (2.9) | 375 | 0.326 | |
| 2019 | 78 (18.6) | 134 (31.9) | 91 (21.7) | 74 (17.6) | 17 (4.1) | 1 (0.2) | 8 (1.9) | 17 (4.1) | 420 | |||
| Period B | 2020 | 120 (25.8) | 105 (22.5) | 101 (21.7) | 82 (17.6) | 22 (4.7) | 2 (0.4) | 12 (2.6) | 22 (4.7) | 466 | 0.002 | |
| 2019 | 72 (16.0) | 147 (32.7) | 113 (25.1) | 65 (14.4) | 18 (4.0) | 4 (0.9) | 14 (3.1) | 17 (3.8) | 450 | |||
| Patients older than 65 years | ||||||||||||
| Period A | 2020 | 13 (18.1) | 20 (27.8) | 21 (29.2) | 6 (8.3) | 1 (1.4) | 1 (1.4) | 3 (4.2) | 7 (5.7) | 72 | 0.132 | |
| 2019 | 10 (11.8) | 37 (43.5) | 18 (21.2) | 10 (11.8) | 4 (4.7) | 1 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (5.9) | 85 | |||
| Period B | 2020 | 24 (21.8) | 22 (20.0) | 31 (28.2) | 17 (15.5) | 5 (4.6) | 1 (0.9) | 1 (0.9) | 9 (8.2) | 110 | 0.394 | |
| 2019 | 18 (20.2) | 25 (28.1) | 26 (29.2) | 6 (6.7) | 7 (7.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (7.9) | 89 | |||
Values are presented as number of patients (%) not otherwise specified.
cStage = clinical stage.