Table 2.
Characteristics of women with breast cancer, by year of diagnosis and age.
Variables | <45 | 45–74 | 75+ | ||||||||||||
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2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | ||||||||||
n | % | n | % | p-Value | n | % | n | % | p-Value | n | % | n | % | p-Value | |
Overall | 63 | 56 | 377 | 423 | 130 | 110 | |||||||||
Invasive | 53 | 84.1 | 48 | 85.7 | 0.809 | 316 | 83.8 | 359 | 84.9 | 0.683 | 128 | 98.5 | 106 | 96.4 | 0.300 |
In situ | 10 | 15.9 | 8 | 14.3 | 61 | 16.2 | 64 | 15.1 | 2 | 1.5 | 4 | 3.6 | |||
Only invasive | |||||||||||||||
Morphology | |||||||||||||||
ductal | 45 | 84.9 | 44 | 91.7 | 0.535 | 259 | 82.0 | 285 | 79.4 | 0.046 | 91 | 71.1 | 83 | 78.3 | 0.107 |
lobular | 3 | 5.7 | 2 | 4.2 | 51 | 16.1 | 54 | 15.0 | 23 | 18.0 | 9 | 8.5 | |||
other | 5 | 9.4 | 2 | 4.2 | 6 | 1.9 | 20 | 5.6 | 14 | 10.9 | 14 | 13.2 | |||
pT | |||||||||||||||
T1 | 25 | 47.2 | 16 | 33.3 | 0.225 | 211 | 66.8 | 244 | 68.0 | 0.885 | 47 | 36.7 | 33 | 31.1 | 0.189 |
T2 | 8 | 15.1 | 10 | 20.8 | 47 | 14.9 | 51 | 14.2 | 30 | 23.4 | 28 | 26.4 | |||
T3 | 2 | 3.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 2.2 | 9 | 2.5 | 4 | 3.1 | 3 | 2.8 | |||
T4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 8 | 6.3 | 1 | 0.9 | |||
Unknown | 18 | 34.0 | 22 | 45.8 | 51 | 16.1 | 54 | 15.0 | 39 | 30.5 | 41 | 38.7 | |||
N | |||||||||||||||
N0 | 31 | 58.5 | 30 | 62.5 | 0.681 | 231 | 73.1 | 259 | 72.1 | 0.893 | 85 | 66.4 | 76 | 71.7 | 0.605 |
N+ | 22 | 41.5 | 18 | 37.5 | 81 | 25.6 | 94 | 26.2 | 37 | 28.9 | 27 | 25.5 | |||
Unknown | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 1.3 | 6 | 1.7 | 6 | 4.7 | 3 | 2.8 | |||
M | |||||||||||||||
M0 | 51 | 96.2 | 43 | 89.6 | 0.178 | 310 | 98.1 | 349 | 97.2 | 123 | 96.1 | 102 | 96.2 | ||
M1 | 2 | 3.8 | 5 | 10.4 | 6 | 1.9 | 10 | 2.8 | 5 | 3.9 | 4 | 3.8 | |||
Stage | |||||||||||||||
I | 25 | 47.2 | 15 | 31.3 | 0.353 | 192 | 60.8 | 226 | 63.0 | 0.435 | 45 | 35.2 | 40 | 37.7 | 0.495 |
II | 17 | 32.1 | 20 | 41.7 | 92 | 29.1 | 91 | 25.3 | 57 | 44.5 | 52 | 49.1 | |||
III | 8 | 15.1 | 6 | 12.5 | 25 | 7.9 | 27 | 7.5 | 19 | 14.8 | 10 | 9.4 | |||
IV | 2 | 3.8 | 5 | 10.4 | 6 | 1.9 | 10 | 2.8 | 5 | 3.9 | 4 | 3.8 | |||
Unknown | 1 | 1.9 | 2 | 4.2 | 1 | 0.3 | 5 | 1.4 | 2 | 1.6 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Grading | |||||||||||||||
1 | 4 | 7.5 | 1 | 2.1 | 0.175 | 22 | 7.0 | 22 | 6.1 | 0.280 | 4 | 3.1 | 3 | 2.8 | 0.305 |
2 | 28 | 52.8 | 19 | 39.6 | 211 | 66.8 | 236 | 65.7 | 83 | 64.8 | 80 | 75.5 | |||
3 | 17 | 32.1 | 25 | 52.1 | 80 | 25.3 | 90 | 25.1 | 33 | 25.8 | 20 | 18.9 | |||
Unknown | 4 | 7.5 | 3 | 6.3 | 3 | 0.9 | 11 | 3.1 | 8 | 6.3 | 3 | 2.8 | |||
Screening | |||||||||||||||
Screen-detected | 199 | 63.0 | 228 | 63.5 | 0.003 | ||||||||||
Interval cancers * | 85 | 26.9 | 81 | 22.6 | |||||||||||
non attenders | 27 | 8.5 | 24 | 6.7 | |||||||||||
not eligible | 5 | 1.6 | 26 | 7.2 | |||||||||||
Total | 53 | 48 | 316 | 359 | 128 | 106 |
* Interval cancers include all women with non-screen detected cancer and who had a negative screening test before cancer diagnosis, independently of the time elapsed since the negative test.