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Table 2 Baseline characteristics of the study participants (n = 196)

From: Electrocardiographic and biochemical analysis of anthracycline induced cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients from Southern Sri Lanka

Nottingham grade of cancer

Receptor status

Low nuclear grade in situ CA

01 (0.5%)

ER positives

50 (25.5%)

Grade I

30 (15.3%)

PR positives

38 (19.4%)

Grade II

101 (51.5%)

Her 2 positives

02 (1.0%)

Grade III

64 (32.7%)

ER & PR positives

94 (48.0%)

Type of anthracycline

ER & Her 2 positives

06 (3.1%)

Doxorubicin

157 (80.1%)

PR & Her 2 positives

03 (1.5%)

Epirubicin

39 (19.9%)

ER, PR & Her 2 positives

03 (1.5%)

Number of anthracycline cycles given

Other therapeutics used as the second part of the adjuvant programme

04 cycles

193 (98.5%)

None

05 (2.6%)

06 cycles

03 (1.5%)

Docetaxel

128 (65.3%)

Patients with

Paclitaxel

46 (23.4%)

Diabetes mellitus

84 (42.9%)

Nano Paclitaxel

17 (8.7%)

Dyslipidaemia

69 (35.2%)

Blood relatives

Neither 43 (21.9%)

With cancer

47 (24.0%)

Marital status

 

Without cancer

149 (76.0%)

Married

148 (75.5%)

 

Unmarried

48 (24.5%)

  
  1. CA carcinoma, ER estrogen receptor, PR progesterone receptor, Her 2 human epidermal growth factor receptor 2