Effect of Formalin Fixation on Surgical Margins in Breast Cancer Surgical Specimen

Table 1

Demographic data.

Variable	Number of patients ()
Age
<40 years	18 (18%)
41–60 years	55 (55%)
>61 years	27 (27%)
Type of surgery
Mastectomy	90 (90%)
Simple mastectomy	39
Modified radical mastectomy	51
Breast conservation surgery	10 (10%)
Wide local Excision	9
Quadrantectomy	1
Cancer type
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC)	82
Lobular carcinoma	6
Metaplastic carcinoma	1
Micropapillary carcinoma	1
Apocrine carcinoma	2
Ductal carcinoma in situ	8
Stage
0 (DCIS)	8
I	18
II	51
III	23
Grade of tumor* ()
I	5
II	65
III	23

indicates that the grade of tumor applied to invasive tumors only.