Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 7 Relationship between demographic / histopathologic features and post-NAC tumor SUL_peak

From: Role of 18 fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in assessment of neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in breast cancer patients

Characteristics	Post-NAC tumor SUL_peak				P value
Characteristics	Mean	SD	Range	Median	P value
Age (years)
≤ median 54	3.7	5.6	0.0–24.7	2.3	^a0.491
> median 54	3.2	1.8	1.3–8.1	2.5	^a0.491
Menopausal status
Pre-menopause	2.5	2.0	0.0–5.8	2.1	^a0.385
Post-menopause	4.3	5.6	0.0–24.7	2.5	^a0.385
Tumor grade
II	3.9	5.6	0.0–24.7	2.4	^a0.305
III	2.9	1.5	0.0–5.8	2.7	^a0.305
Tumor molecular type
Luminal A	4.3	5.9	0.0–24.7	2.5	^b0.113
Luminal B	3.1	2.7	0.0–8.1	2.5
HER-2+	1.9	1.3	0.0–2.8	2.4
Basal type	2.7	0.9	1.9–3.9	2.3

^a Mann-Whitney U test
^b Kruskal-Wallis test (KW)

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