Table 1 Patient demographics and clinical data
Patient demographics | |
|---|---|
Number of patients | 34 |
Number of axillae | 36 |
Age (years mean ± standard deviation) | 60.3 ± 15.7 |
Side | |
Right | 18 |
Left | 14 |
Bilateral | 2 |
Patient history | |
Primary breast cancer | 21 |
Recurrent ipsilateral breast cancer | 9 |
Previous contralateral breast cancer | 4 |
Type of breast cancer | |
Invasive ductal carcinoma | 29 |
Invasive lobular carcinoma | 2 |
Combined | 2 |
Apocrine carcinoma | 1 |
Oestrogen receptor-positive tumour | |
Yes | 26 |
No | 8 |
HER2-positive tumour | |
Yes | 7 |
No | 27 |
Previous ipsilateral radiotherapy | |
Yes | 6 |
No | 28 |
Previous adjuvant chemotherapy | |
Yes | 7 |
No | 27 |
Sentinel lymph node biopsy | 29 |
Metastatic | 16 |
Non-metastatic | 13 |
Axillary lymph node dissection | 7 |
Metastatic | 7 |
Non-metastatic | 0 |