Merging transcriptomics and metabolomics - advances in breast cancer profiling

BMC Cancer

Table 1 Clinical data on the 46 patients included in the main study.

Characteristics	Summary
Age, mean (range) years	64 (30 - 91)
Tumor size, mean (sd) (cm)	2.5 (± 1.4)
Grade
I	5
II	17
III	21
NA	3
Axillary lymph node status
Negative	22
Positive	20
NA	4
Oestrogen receptor (ER) status
Negative	5
Positive	41
Progesterone receptor (PgR) status
Negative	9
Positive	36
NA	1

All patients were diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). All characteristics, except for age and tumor size, are summarized by number of patients in each group. ER and PgR were determined by immunohistochemistry, and samples with ≥10% staining cancer cells were considered receptor positive.

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