Skip to main content

Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: The impact of young age (< 40 years) on the outcome of a cohort of patients with primary non-metastatic breast cancer: analysis of 10-year survival of a prospective study

% (n)

Age above 40 (n = 73)

Age below 40 (n = 46)

p-value

Marital status

78.1 (59)

82.6(40)

0.457

Breast feeding

75.8 (50)

76.7 (33)

1

Physical activity

37 (27)

28.3 (13)

0.426

Vegetable and fruits

80.8 (59)

82.2 (37)

1

Calcium intake

21.9 (16)

8.9 (4)

0.081

VIT D intake

24.7 (18)

13 (6)

0.161

Recurrence

9.6 (7)

28.3 (13)

0.012

Smoker

49.3 (36)

37 (17)

0.256

Alcohol intake

15.1 (11)

19.6 (9)

0.346

Positive Surgical margins who ever have positive margins, re-excision was done to render margins negative

10 (7)

19 (8)

0.251

Grade

  

0.824

1

19.2 (14)

15.6 (7)

 

2

45.2 (33)

44.4 (20)

3

35.6 (26)

40 (18)

cT size

  

0.018

T1

47.9 (35)

37 (17)

 

T2

45.2 (33)

41.3 (19)

T3

2.7 (2)

19.6 (9)

T4

4.1 (30

2.2 (1)

cNode status

  

0.332

N0

57.5 (42)

44.4 (20)

 

N1

28.8 (21)

40 (18)

N2

13.7 (10)

15.6 (7)

Stage

  

0.099

1

38.4 (28)

21.7 (10)

 

2

43.8 (32)

47.8 (22)

3

17.8 (13)

30.4 (14)

Erb2 positive

6.9 (5)

8.7 (4)

0.735

Ki67

  

0.140

< 10%

19.4 (12)

26.3 (10)

 

10–20%

33.9 (21)

15.8 (6)

> 20%

46.8 (29)

57.9 (22)

Hormone receptor positive

87.7 (57)

80 (28)

0.381

Luminal A

44.4 (32)

39.1 (18)

0.703

Luminal B

34.7 (25)

26.1 (12)

0.218

Triple negative

13.9 (10)

26.1 (12)

0.378

ERB2

6.9 (5)

8.7 (4)

0.735

Mastectomy

  

0.087

Total

39.7 (29)

56.8 (25)

 

Partial

60.3 (44)

43.2 (19)

Family history breast cancer

50.7 (37)

52.2 (24)

1

BRCA

7.2 (5)

7.9 (3)

1