Table 2 Characteristics of eligible breast cancer patients aged 40 years or younger at diagnosis.
From: Exercise activity, body size and premenopausal breast cancer survival
Still living or died from other known causes (n=466) | Died of breast cancer (n=251) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristics at breast cancer diagnosis | n | % | N | % | χ2 P |
Age (years) | |||||
21–25 | 6 | 1.3 | 11 | 4.4 | |
26–30 | 31 | 6.7 | 23 | 9.2 | |
31–35 | 132 | 28.3 | 85 | 33.9 | |
36–40 | 297 | 63.7 | 132 | 52.5 | 0.005 |
Stage | |||||
In Situ | 68 | 14.6 | 3 | 1.2 | |
Localised | 255 | 54.7 | 85 | 33.9 | |
Regional | 139 | 29.8 | 141 | 56.2 | |
Distant | 4 | 0.9 | 22 | 8.7 | <0.0001 |
Axillary lymph node involvement | |||||
Yes | 139 | 29.8 | 156 | 62.1 | |
No | 323 | 69.3 | 88 | 35.1 | <0.0001 |
Unknown | 4 | 0.9 | 7 | 2.8 | |
