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Table 3 Local and systemic adjuvant therapy by histologic type

From: Infiltrating lobular carcinoma of the breast: tumor characteristics and clinical outcome

 

Histologic type

 

Therapy

ILC

IDC

P

Surgery

   

   Number of patients

4197

45995

 

   None (%)

1.1

0.8

 

   Modified radical mastectomy (%)

89.4

86.5

<0.0001

   Lumpectomy (%)

9.5

12.7

 

Adjuvant therapy

   

   Number of patients

2817

31043

 

   None (%)

42.4

42.3

 

   Chemotherapy (%)

16.2

23.7

<0.0001

   Endocrine therapy (%)

28.8

22.9

 

   Chemotherapy and endocrine therapy (%)

12.6

11.1

 
  1. IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma; ILC, invasive lobular carcinoma.