A Perspective on Tongue Diagnosis in Patients with Breast Cancer

Table 1

Demography of study participants.

Tongue features	Control	Breast cancer	value
	n = 155	n = 122
Age (mean ± SD)	52.7 ± 9.7	51.5 ± 9.0	0.338
BMI, kg/m^2 (mean ± SD)	23.4 ± 3.3	23.5 ± 3.8	0.864
Surgery, n (%)		68 (55.7%)
Chemotherapy regimens, n (%)		38 (31.1%)
Radiation therapy, n (%)		32 (26.6%)
Stage, n (%)
Stage 0		1 (0.8%)
Stage I		32 (26.2%)
Stage II		64 (52.5%)
Stage III		21 (17.2%)
Stage IV		4 (3.3%)

values were performed by independent t-test for continuous variables. BMI: body mass index.