Research Article

Can Ki-67 Play a Role in Prediction of Breast Cancer Patients' Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy?

Table 2

Therapeutic and postoperative characteristics. Discrete data are given as numbers, continuous as the mean ± standard deviation.

ParameterValue

Total number of patients 77
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
 EC/DOC61 (79.2%)
 TAC11 (14.2%)
 Others5 (6.4%)
 Endocrine therapy
Neoadjuvant targeted therapy
 Trastuzumab15 (19.4%)
 Lapatinib3 (3.8%)
 Trastuzumab + pertuzumab2 (2.5%)
 Bevacizumab6 (7.7%)
 None51 (66.2%)
Posttherapeutic sonographic tumor diameter (mm)12.6 ± 10.0
Postoperative histologic tumor diameter (mm)15.7 ± 17.1
Postoperative tumor stage
 020 (25.9%)
 1a9 (11.6%)
 1b7 (9%)
 1c18 (23.3%)
 215 (19.4%)
 36 (7.7%)
 42 (2.5%)
Grade of regression (Sinn)
 03 (3.8%)
 128 (36.3%)
 222 (28.5%)
 32 (2.5%)
 418 (23.3%)
 Unknown4 (5.1%)