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Table 1 Clinicopathologic factors of BC patients

From: Monitoring the responsiveness of T and antigen presenting cell compartments in breast cancer patients is useful to predict clinical tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Patients’ clinical characteristics

n

Age (years) mean 55.6

 <50

6

 >50

11

TNM (stage)

 1

1

 2

10

 3

6

Clinical stage

 IIA

2

 IIB

8

 IIIA

6

 IIIB

1

Clinical Lymph Node Classification

 cN0

3

 cN1

10

 cN2

4

 cN3

0

Systemic metastases

 No

17

 Yes

0

Residual Cancer Burden (RCB)*

 RCB-III

0

 RCB-II

11

 RCB-I

2

 pCR

4

Estrogen receptor (ER)

 Positive (>10%)

13

 Negative (<10%)

4

Progesterone receptor (PR)

 Positive (>10%)

10

 Negative (<10%)

7

Ki-67

 Positive (>14%)

4

 Negative (<14%)

13

Her2/neu

 Positive

5

 Negative

12

Scarff-Bloom-Richardson (SBR) grade

 I

0

 II

10

 III

7

Breast Cancer sub-types**

 Luminal A

3

 Luminal B

10

 Triple negative

3

 Her2/neu overexpressing

1

  1. *Classification based on MD Anderson Center RCB calculator
  2. **Luminal A: ER+ and/or PR+, HER-2− and Ki67 low. Luminal B: ER+ and/or PR+, HER-2− and/or HER-2+ and Ki67 high. Triple negative: ER− and PR− and HER-2−. Her2/neu overexpressing: ER- and Her2/neu+