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Table 1 Clinicopathological features of 332 patients who had surgery after being diagnosed with cT1N0-2 M0 breast cancer, including 319 cT1N0M0 breast cancer

From: Prediction of lymph node metastasis by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in T1 breast cancer

Parameters

Number of all patients (n = 332) (%)

Number of cN0 patients (n = 319) (%)

Age at operation (years old)

median 59 (range, 29–79)

median 59 (range, 29–79)

Tumor size (mm)

median 13 (range, 4–20)

median 13 (range, 4–20)

Clinical lymph node metastasis cN0 / cN1 / cN2

319 (96.1%) / 11 (3.3%) / 2 (0.6%)

–

Estrogen receptor Negative / Positive

59 (17.8%) / 273 (82.2%)

57 (17.9%) / 262 (82.1%)

Progesterone receptor Negative / Positive

130 (39.2%) / 202 (60.8%)

125 (39.2%) / 194 (60.8%)

HER2 Negative / Positive

306 (92.2%) / 26 (7.8%)

295 (92.5%) / 24 (7.5%)

Ki67 ≤ 14% / > 14%

206 (62.0%) / 126 (38.0%)

196 (61.4%) / 123 (38.6%)

Intrinsic subtype HR + HER2-BC / HR + HER2 + BC / HER2enriched BC / TNBC

265 (79.8%) / 11 (3.3%) / 15

255 (79.9%) / 10 (3.1%) / 14

(4.5%) / 41 (12.4%)

(4.4%) / 40 (12.6%)

Lymphatic invasion ly0 / ly1

229 (69.0%) / 103 (31.0%)

224 (70.2%) / 95 (29.8%)

Venous invasion v0 / v1

318 (95.8%) / 14 (4.2%)

306 (95.9%) / 13 (4.1%)

Nuclear grade 1 / 2 / 3

164 (49.4%) / 129 (38.9%) / 39

158 (49.5%) / 125 (39.2%) / 36

(11.7%)

(11.3%)

Pathological lymph node metastasis pN0 / pN1mic / pN1a / pN2

257 (77.4%) / 16 (4.8%) / 54

257 (80.6%) / 16 (5.0%) / 46

(16.3%) / 5 (1.5%)

(14.4%) / 0 (0.0%)

TILs (score) 0 / 1 / 2 / 3

29 (8.7%) / 243 (73.2%) / 57

25 (7.8%) / 235 (73.7%) / 56

(17.2%) / 3 (0.9%)

(17.6%) / 3 (0.9%)

  1. HER2: human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. HR + HER2-BC: hormone receptor-positive and HER2 negative breast cancer (ER+ and/or PgR+, and HER2-). HR + HER2 + BC: hormone receptor-positive and HER2 positive breast cancer (ER+ and/or PgR+, and HER2+). HER2 enriched BC: human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-enriched breast cancer (ER-, PgR-, and HER2+). TNBC: triple negative breast cancer (ER-, PgR-, and HER2-). TILs: tumor- infiltrating lymphocytes