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Table 1 Patient and tumor characteristics

From: Molecular apocrine breast cancers are aggressive estrogen receptor negative tumors overexpressing either HER2 or GCDFP15

Characteristics

Molecular apocrine

No. patients (%)

Basal-like

No. patients (%)

All patients

58

13

Age at diagnosis (range)

54 y.o.

(32 to 86)

43 y.o.

(27 to 63)

Menopausal status

   - premenopausal

   - postmenopausal

26 (45)

32 (55)

10 (77)

3 (23)

Clinical tumor size

     -T0-T1

     -T2-T3-T4

11 (19)

47 (81)

0 (0)

13 (100)

Histology

     - Invasive ductal

   with Paget disease

   with apocrine differentiation

   with squamous metaplastic areas

58 (100)

4 (7)

4 (7)

1 (2)

13 (100)

1 (8)

In situ component

44 (76)

3 (23)

Pathological nodal involvment

     -N0

   -N1, N2, N3

    no axillary dissection

22 (38)

33 (57)

3 (5)

11 (85)

2 (15)

Grading SBR

     -G2

     -G3

15 (26)

43 (74)

1 (8)

12 (92)

Lymphovascular invasion

28 (48)

1 (8)

Treatments:

Surgery

     - lumpectomy

     - mastectomy

     - no

Chemotherapy (CT)

     - neoadjuvant CT

     - adjuvant CT

     - neoadjuvant and adjuvant CT

- no

Radiotherapy

Trastuzumab

18 (31)

39 (67)

1 (2)

9 (15)

34 (59)

8 (14)

7 (12)

41 (71)

16 (28)

0 (0)

13 (100)

0 (0)

0 (0)

1 (8)

12 (92)

0 (0)

10 (77)

0 (0)