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Table 1 Rates of pathological complete response according to selected baseline radiological feature for all tumours

From: Are baseline ultrasound and mammographic features associated with rates of pathological completes response in patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer?

 

pCR

Non pCR

% pCR

p value

No shadowing

76

215

26.1

 

Shadowing

16

137

10.5

< 0.001

Hypoechoic

67

241

21.8

 

Non-hypoechoic

25

111

18.4

0.42

Circumscribed

26

72

26.5

 

Not circumscribed

66

280

19.1

0.11

Calcification

25

126

16.6

 

No calcification

67

224

23.0

0.11

Spiculation

7

114

5.8

 

No spiculation

85

236

26.5

< 0.001

Size

AUC 0.588

0.059