Table 1.
Clinicopathological characteristics of breast cancer patients included in this study
| Characteristic | Healthy group (n=25) |
Breast cancer group (50) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-metastasis (n=25) | With metastasis (n=25) | ||
| Median age at diagnosis (years) | 46 (25-73) | 50 (31-72) | 52 (34-69) |
| Gender | |||
| Male | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Female | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Histologic grade | |||
| I-II | 0 | 25 | 8 |
| III-IV | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Tumor stage | |||
| T1 | 0 | 20 | 6 |
| T2-T4 | 0 | 5 | 19 |
| Lymph Node stage | |||
| N0-N1 | 0 | 24 | 7 |
| N2-N3 | 0 | 1 | 18 |
| Metastasis | |||
| M0 | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| M1 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Chemotherapy | |||
| Received | 0 | 3 | 25 |
| Not received | 0 | 22 | 0 |