Table 1 Patient age and breast cancer characteristics

From: Characterisation of breast fine-needle aspiration biopsies by centrosome aberrations and genomic instability

Age (years)

59 (28–87)

Histological type

 

 Ductal

31 (53.5%)

 Lobular

1 (1.7%)

 Medullar

1 (1.7%)

 DCISa

7 (12.1%)

 Mastopathia

10 (17.2%)

 Fibroadenoma

8 (13.8%)

Tumour size (carcinomas and DCIS) b

 

 T1b

7 (17.5%)

 T1c

26 (65.0%)

 T2

6 (15.0%)

 Not determined

1 (2.5%)

Grade (invasive carcinomas) c

 

 Elston Grade 1

6 (18.2%)

 Elston Grade 2

17 (51.5%)

 Elston Grade 3

10 (30.3%)

  1. aClassification according to Ottesen et al (1992).
  2. bTumour-Node-Metastasis classification (Union International Contre Cancer) 1997.
  3. cElston–Ellis modification of Scarff–Bloom–Richardson grading system (CW Elston and JO Ellis).
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