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Table 2 Cancer characteristics

From: Ultrafast dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI may generate prognostic imaging markers of breast cancer

 

Invasive carcinoma (n = 124)

DCIS (n = 18)

Lesion type

 Mass

91 (73)

5 (28)

 Non-mass enhancement

31 (25)

13 (72)

 Focus

2 (2)

0 (0)

Lesion size

 Median

19.5 mm

13.5 mm

 1st quartile, 3rd quartile

13 mm, 32.3 mm

9.3 mm, 19.5 mm

Tumor grade of DCIS

 Microinvasive carcinoma

NA

3 (17)

 High grade DCIS

NA

4 (22)

 Intermediate grade DCIS

NA

10 (56)

 Low grade DCIS

NA

1 (6)

Tumor grade of invasive carcinoma*

 Grade 1 (well differentiated)

7 (6)

NA

 Grade 2 (moderately differentiated)

48 (39)

NA

 Grade 3 (poorly differentiated)

56 (45)

NA

 Not available

13 (10)

NA

Histopathology*

 Invasive ductal carcinoma

98 (79)

NA

 Invasive lobular carcinoma

20 (16)

NA

 Mixed invasive ductal/lobular carcinoma

6 (5)

NA

Molecular subtype*

 Triple negative type

(HR−, HER2−)

12 (10)

NA

 HER2 type (HR−)

(HR−, HER2+)

5 (4)

NA

 HER2 type (HR+)

(HR+, HER2+)

16 (13)

NA

 Luminal type

(HR+, HER2−)

91 (73)

NA

Lymph node metastasis status*

 Positive

57 (46)

NA

 Negative

64 (52)

NA

 Not available

3 (2)

NA

Oncotype DX recurrence score†

 High risk

2 (4)

NA

 Intermediate risk

13 (29)

NA

 Low risk

30 (67)

NA

  1. *Data for invasive carcinomas
  2. †Data for 45 invasive carcinomas for which Oncotype DX score was available
  3. DCIS ductal carcinoma in situ, NA not applicable