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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of BC patients treated with adjuvant hypofractionated IMRT after BCS and known smoking status

From: Smoking increases breast toxicity despite adjuvant hypofractionated IMRT in early breast cancer

 

Whole cohort (n = 566)

Smokers (n = 177)

Nonsmokers (n = 389)

P value

Age at diagnosis, median [Q1; Q3]

53.0 [47; 63]

51 [46;59]

54 [47;64]

0.009

Menopause (n, %)

288 (50.9)

82 (49.7)

206 (52.9)

0.144

Breast laterality (n, %)

 

0.184

Right

292 (51.6)

84 (47.5)

208 (53.5)

 

Left

274 (48.4)

93 (52.5)

181 (46.5)

 

Pathologic diagnosis (n, %)

 

0.410

IDC

444 (78.6)

145 (81.9)

299 (76.8)

 

DCIS

73 (12.9)

20 (11.3)

53 (13.6)

 

ILC/Other

48 (8.5)

12 (6.8)

36 (9.3)

 

Subtype (n, %)

 

0.518

DCIS

70 (12.4)

20 (11.3)

50 (12.9)

 

Luminal phenotype

 

Luminal A

208 (36.8)

66 (37.3)

142 (36.5)

 

Luminal B HER2-

109 (19.3)

37 (20.9)

72 (18.5)

 

Luminal B HER2+

42 (7.4)

13 (7.3)

29 (7.5)

 

Luminal A/B*

75 (13.3)

22 (12.4)

53 (13.6)

 

Pure HER2+**

10 (1.8)

1 (0.6)

9 (2.31)

 

Triple negative

43 (7.6)

17 (9.6)

26 (6.7)

 

Unknown

8 (1.4)

1 (0.6)

7 (1.8)

 

pT (n,%)

 

0.119

T0

35 (6.5)

   

Tx

4 (0.7)

0 (0.0)

4 (1.0)

 

Tis

72 (13.4)

20 (11.3)

52 (13.4)

 

T1a

32 (5.9)

6 (3.4)

26 (6.7)

 

T1b

129 (24.0)

48 (27.1)

81(20.8)

 

T1c

221 (41.1)

75 (42.4)

146 (37.5)

 

T2

45 (8.4)

11 (6.2)

34 (8.7)

 

T3

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

 

pN (n, %)

 

0.222

N0/N0itc

480 (91.3)

146 (82.5)

334 (85.8)

 

N1/N1mic

46 (8.7)

18 (10.2)

28 (7.2)

 

≥N2

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

 

Chemotherapy (n,%)

 

0.729

No

368 (65.4)

118 (66.6)

250 (64.3)

 

Neoadjuvant

66 (11.7)

22 (12.4)

44 (11.3)

 

Adjuvant

129 (22.9)

37 (20.9)

92 (23.6)

 

Hormonotherapy (n, %)

462 (85.2)

148 (83.6)

314 (80.7)

0.718

  1. IDC: Infiltrating ductal carcinoma; DCIS: Ductal carcinoma in situ; ILC: Infiltrating lobular carcinoma; pT: patological tumour size (patient may have received neoadjuvant treatment); Tis: Tumour in situ; pN: pathologic node status (patient may have received neoadjuvant treatment); mic: micrometastasis; itc: isolated tumour cells; * Luminal, unknown if A or B; ** HER2+, negative estrogen and progesterone receptors