The Importance of Clinical Data for the Diagnosis of Breast Tumours in North Afghanistan

Table 6

Context variables for invasive breast carcinoma.

(a)

Profile of invasive breast carcinoma ()
	Mean	SD	Median	Range
Age (years)	45.6	12.2	45	20-84
Duration of disease (months)	17	10.0	12	0.3-144
Size (cm)	3.7	2.5	3	4-20

(b)

Categorical variables
	No ()	Yes ()	No (%)	Yes (%)
Painful	100	39	71.9	28.1
Movability	105	34	78.4	21.6
Firm consistency	8	131	6.1	93-9
Irregular margin	8	131	6.1	93.9
Skin involvement	24	115	17.3	82.7
Axillary involvement	44	95	31.6	68.4
Child	124	15	89.2	10.8
Lactation	50	89	36	64