Table 1 Characteristics of breast cancer patients.

From: Cytidine deaminase activity increases in the blood of breast cancer patients

Characteristics

Patients, n (%)

Number of patients

183 (100)

Median age, years

48

Range

24–84

Sex

Male

10 (5.5)

Female

173 (94.5)

Radiotherapy*

Yes

162 (88.5)

No

21 (11.5)

Chemotherapy

Yes

118 (64.5)

No

62 (33.9)

NA

3 (1.6)

Hormone therapy

Yes

114 (62.3)

No

69 (37.7)

Surgery

Yes

180 (98.4)

No

2 (1.1)

NA

1 (0.5)

Stage

I

19 (10.4)

II

79 (43.1)

III

58 (31.7)

NA

27 (14.8)

Recurrence

Yes

16 (8.7)

No

167 (91.3)

Metastases

Yes

14 (7.7)

No

169 (92.3)

Death

Yes

6 (3.3)

No

177 (96.7)

  1. Of the 183 BC patients, 180 underwent surgery, 162 were treated by radiotherapy (RT) (including 113 patients receiving both CT and RT, 46 treated by RT alone, and 3 for whom the presence or absence of CT was unknown), 118 received chemotherapy (CT) (including 113 receiving both CT and RT and five patients treated by CT alone), 114 patients received hormone therapy (including 28 treated by RT, 2 treated by CT, 77 treated by CT and RT, and 6 receiving only hormone therapy and have not been included in the 4 groups of BC patients presented in Fig. S3b). Ten patients received no treatment.
  2. *For 22 patients, the date of RT was not available.
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