The Effect of Young Age in Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer

Table 2

Types of treatment in young women compared to older women.

Variable	≤40 years; ()	>40 years; ()	value
Surgery (%)
Breast conservation	13 (24.1)	323 (52.5)	<0.01
Mastectomy	41 (75.9)	292 (47.5)
Nodal treatment (%)
None	0 (0)	41 (6.7)	0.05
SLND	24 (44.4)	312 (50.7)
ALND	30 (55.6)	262 (42.6)
Adjuvant treatment (%)
Chemotherapy	29 (53.7)	231 (37.6)	<0.01
Radiation therapy	24 (44.4)	350 (57.3)	0.18

SLND: sentinel lymph node dissection.
ALND: axillary lymph node dissection.