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Table 2 Comparison of Tumor Clinicopathology and Radiolographic nodal status between patients with Pathological nodal status N1 and Pathological nodal status N0

From: Is sentinel lymph node biopsy without frozen section in early stage breast cancer sufficient in accordance with ACOSOG-Z0011? A retrospective review from King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital

 

Total

No. of Patient with Pathological node N1

No. of Patient with Pathological node N0

p-value

Location

   

0.189

 Right

108

9 (8.4%)

99 (91.6%)

 

 Left

131

18 (13.8%)

113 (86.2%)

 

Tumor size

   

0.095

 T1 (< 2 cm)

150

13 (11.9%)

133 (91.1%)

 

 T2 (2–5 cm)

89

14 (14.8%)

75 (85.2%)

 

Radiolographic node

 < 0.001*

 Borderline

20

11 (55.0%)

9 (45.0%)

 

 Negative

219

16 (7.4%)

203 (92.6%)

 

Histologic grade

   

0.079

 1

48

1 (2.1%)

47 (97.9%)

 

 2

132

18 (13.7%)

114 (86.3%)

 

 3

59

8 (13.6%)

51 (86.4%)

 

Histopathology

   

0.333

 IDC

195

27 (13.9%)

168 (86.1%)

 

 ILC

9

0 (0%)

9 (100%)

 

 DCISM

15

0 (0%)

15 (100%)

 

 Mucinous

10

0 (0%)

10 (100%)

 

 Papillary

6

0 (0%)

6 (100%)

 

 Tubular

1

0 (0%)

1 (100%)

 

 Mixed

3

0 (0%)

3 (100%)

 

Lymphovascular invasion

 < 0.001*

 Yes

39

18 (46.2%)

21 (53.8%)

 

 No

200

9 (4.5%)

191 (95.5%)

 

Estrogen receptor

   

0.961

 Positive

185

21 (11.4%)

164 (88.6%)

 

 Negative

54

6 (11.1%)

48 (88.9%)

 

Progesterone receptor

0.834

 Positive

155

18 (11.7%)

137 (88.3%)

 

 Negative

84

9 (10.8%)

75 (89.2%)

 

HER-2

   

0.967

 Positive

49

6 (12.2%)

43 (87.8%)

 

 Negative

180

20 (11.1%)

160 (88.9%)

 

 Not known

10

1 (10.0%)

9 (90.0%)

 

 Total

239

27

212

 
  1. IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma; ILC, invasive lobular carcinoma; DCISM, ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion; HER-2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2