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Table 2 Patient and tumor characteristics specified by adjuvant chemotherapya

From: Efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy according to hormone receptor status in young patients with breast cancer: a pooled analysis

Characteristic

Number of patients (percentage)

 

No adjuvant chemotherapy Number = 279

Adjuvant chemotherapy Number = 200

ER-positive

161 (58)

126 (63)

   Anthracycline-based

 

66

   CMF

 

60

ER-negative

110 (39)

70 (35)

   Anthracycline-based

 

48

   CMF

 

22

PgR-positive

135 (48)

88 (44)

PgR-negative

135 (48)

105 (53)

T1

187 (67)

105 (53)

T2/T3

76 (27)

75 (38)

Node-negative

259 (93)

29 (15)

Node-positive

18 (6)

170 (85)

Breast-conserving surgery

247 (89)

146 (73)

Mastectomy

32 (11)

53 (27)

  1. aMissing data not shown. CMF, cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and 5-fluorouracil; ER, estrogen receptor; PgR, progesterone receptor; T, tumor size.