Research Article

Changes in Degree Centrality and Functional Connectivity after the First Cycle of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer: A Longitudinal Study

Table 1

Clinical characteristics.

CharacteristicsNAC groupHC group value
()()

Age (years)0.78
Education (years)0.31
BMI (TP0)0.32
Hypertension/nonhypertension (TP0)6/293/270.49
Premenopausal/postmenopausal (TP0)14/2114/160.59
Stage
 cIIA/cIIB2/4N/AN/A
 cIIIA/cIIIb/cIIIc17/5/7N/AN/A
Regimen
 AC-T9N/AN/A
 EC-T3N/AN/A
 TCbHP7N/AN/A
 TCbHB4N/AN/A
 TAC12N/AN/A

Distribution data are reported as . For the intergroup comparisons of age, education, and BMI, the value was obtained using the independent sample -test. For the intergroup comparisons of blood pressure and menstrual status, the value was obtained using the test. Abbreviations: BMI: body mass index; AC-T: epirubicin, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel; EC-T: doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel; TCbHP: paclitaxel, carboplatin, pertuzumab, and trastuzumab; TCbHB: paclitaxel, carboplatin, trastuzumab, and pyrotinib; TAC: docetaxel, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide; N/A: not applicable.