Table 3.

Patient sociodemographic and clinical characteristics by group.

	Conventional therapy arm, N = 35	Experimental arm, N = 35	p-value
	n (%)*	n (%)*
Age (SD)	58.86 (12.7)	56.11 (12.7)	0.159
Women	35 (100.0)	35 (100.0)
Treatments
Lumpectomy	21 (60.0)	19 (54.2)	0.449
Mastectomy	14 (40.0)	16 (45.7)	1
Radiotherapy	29 (82.8)	29(82.8)	0.333
Chemotherapy	25 (71.4)	28 (80.0)	0.373
Hormone therapy	28 (80.0)	23 (65.7)	0.424
Immediate reconstruction	2 (14.3)	3 (18.7)	1
Mean number of resected nodes: 1–15	22 (62.9)	23 (65.7)
Mean number of resected nodes: 16–30	13 (37.1)	12 (34.3)	0.018(*)
Involvement of dominant arm	17 (48.6)	23 (65.7)	0.330
Web syndrome	7 (20.0)	2 (5.7)	1
BMI (SD)	26.64 (4.0)	26.61(4.0)	0.042(*)
Educational level			0.786
Read/write only	4 (11.4)	10 (28.5)
Primary	12 (34.3)	5 (14.3)
Secondary	8 (22.8)	5 (14.3)
University	11 (31.4)	15 (42.8)

SD, standard deviation; BMI, body mass index.

^*All data given as n (%) unless otherwise indicated.