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

Table 2 Rates of pathological complete response according to selected baseline radiological feature for HER-2 positive tumours

	pCR	Non pCR	% pCR	p value
No shadowing	37	59	38.5
Shadowing	9	51	15.0	0.002
Hypoechoic	37	76	32.7
Non-hypoechoic	9	34	20.9	0.15
circumscribed	10	12	45.4
Not circumscribed	36	98	26.9	0.08
calcification	17	63	21.3
No calcification	29	45	39.2	0.02
spiculation	2	37	5.1
No spiculation	44	71	38.3	< 0.001
ER + ve	12	40
ER -ve	11	15		0.08
Size	AUC = 0.713			< 0.001

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