| Characteristics | Samples description |
| (1) Group of healthy donors | | Number of healthy women | 56 | Age at diagnosis, years (range, mean ± SD) | 17–60, 40,11 ± 12,20 | The number of healthy donors 45 years old or older | 21 | The number of healthy donors younger than 45 years | 35 | (2) Group of patients with benign breast tumors | | Number of fibroadenoma patients | 22 | Age at diagnosis, years (range, mean ± SD) | 24–63, 30 ± 9,54 | The number of fibroadenoma patients 45 years old or older | 2 | The number of fibroadenoma patients younger than 45 years | 20 | (3) Group of cancer patients | | Number of patients | 120 | Age at diagnosis, years (range, mean ± SD) | 36–83, ,63 | The number of cancer patients 45 years old or older | 112 | The number of cancer patients younger than 45 years | 8 | Tumor type | | Invasive ductal breast carcinoma | 87 | Invasive lobular breast carcinoma | 23 | Medullary breast cancer | 10 | Tumor grade (% from general) | 83 | | Grade 1: 4,82 | | Grade 2: 37,35 | | Grade 3: 57,83 | ER-status (%) | 52 | Positive | 71,1 | Negative | 28,9 | PR-status (%) | 52 | Positive | 30,8 | Negative | 69,2 | HER-2/neu status (%) | 52 | Positive | 30,8 | Negative | 69,2 | Lymphoid nodes status (% of positive) | 28,8 |
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